Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 2 | ‘ Was there anything at all about them that struck you as odd ? ’ |
| 3 | Ward was still asleep when I turned right and headed eastwards towards the Andes , the mist a white vapour , the rice fields , the cacti , the occasional trees , all having a weirdness about them that matched my mood and added to my growing fear of what lay ahead , beyond the mountains I could not see . |
| 4 | If the tracks are there , visitors will find out about them and use them . |
| 5 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 6 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 7 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 8 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 9 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 10 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 11 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 12 | He took 15,000 pesetas off me and said he 'd come to my apartment later that evening . |
| 13 | ‘ He — I knew what would happen — last time he — he started — he got Gary off me and left him — in his cot , he was screaming , he were scared-he was rough you see he gets rough when he 's drunk , he does n't think — ’ |
| 14 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 15 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 16 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 17 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 18 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 19 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 20 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 21 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 22 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 23 | And we know that in all things god works for good for them that love him . |
| 24 | Their fate should , therefore , be in some sense at least exemplary : opportunity was certainly offered to them , they had choices , at eighteen the world opened for them and displayed its riches , the brave new world of Welfare State and County Scholarships , of equality for women , they were the elite , the chosen , the garlanded of the great social dream . |
| 25 | It existed to ‘ speak for artists and art organisations , to offer them advice , to argue for them and to champion their interests in the media and to government whenever and wherever the need may arise ’ . |
| 26 | From the smaller to the greater , the patterns always hold true , and the Factory has taught me to watch out for them and respect them . |
| 27 | ‘ Collar ’ was thus often used as a way of asking to go outdoors , and after saying ‘ Collar ’ , the chimpanzees would often go search for them and put them around their necks while pant-hooting in anticipation . |
| 28 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 29 | They 're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do , like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys , and they 're the ones who 'll survive another big war , in their bunkers and tunnels . |
| 30 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |