Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 2 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 3 | I was involved in setting up a charity called SNIP which is a Special Needs Information Point for parents and carers of children with special needs to get more information out to them about benefits or help in any way . |
| 4 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 5 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 6 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 7 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 8 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 9 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 10 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 11 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 12 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 13 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 14 | His right shoulder crashes forward as he spins , to jolt me off balance and let him come in close . |
| 15 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 16 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 17 | He met me after school and accompanied me to the newly opened branch of Smith 's in Churchill Square . |
| 18 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 19 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 20 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 21 | This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers . |
| 22 | The design of the dress robbed me of breasts but revealed white angular shoulders which added an extra foot to my thin white arms . |
| 23 | are you accusing me of drinking and driving ? |
| 24 | [ My father ] used to talk to me of books and take me to lectures . |
| 25 | Perhaps the police would n't even let them do that , perhaps they would treat them like gypsies and move them on and on and not let them stop anywhere . |
| 26 | A load of camera gear assumes a life of its own , swinging round at awkward moments , trying to catch you off balance and topple you over the edge . |
| 27 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 28 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 29 | I refer to your recent application for the above post and am pleased to invite you for interview as follows : |
| 30 | Suppose one of your subordinates keeps telephoning you for advice and help several times a day thus interrupting your work . |