Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | David advised me to sound you out on it . |
| 3 | I fully accept that , but let me throw it back at you and say you , through your brother , are arguing about the small print on an extended warranty . |
| 4 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 5 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 6 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |
| 7 | He meant me to pass it on to my son . ’ |
| 8 | In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up . |
| 9 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 10 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 11 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 12 | Sister not only gave smiling permission , she allowed me to escort him back to his car . |
| 13 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 14 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 15 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 16 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 17 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 18 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 19 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
| 20 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 21 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 22 | I flung myself out of bed and into her arms . |
| 23 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 24 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 25 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 26 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 27 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 28 | I made nothing out of it . |
| 29 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 30 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |