Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 2 | But he was paying them sixpence above the rate so there was no problem to him . |
| 3 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
| 4 | Mick had bandaged my leg an hour earlier and I was enjoying the comfort of the ride , my mind on the task ahead . |
| 5 | I ca n't change my mind about the name Lemarchand as suddenly as this . ’ |
| 6 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 7 | I raised my eyebrows , resolving , as I did so , to let him know my side of the story as soon as possible . |
| 8 | I hate to say something I do n't mean , and I had enough sense left to know I might not be prepared to keep my side of the contract tomorrow . |
| 9 | I believe you can see why , first of it it 's most common , and second to coronary artery disease , I 'm a cardiac surgeon , I want my piece of the action too , so we keep as well . |
| 10 | I have to confess extreme disappointment with most new versions over the last few years , making my pleasure in the newcomer even greater . |
| 11 | Now , Father McGiff told himself , I 'll be able to resume my old evening routine when I can stop my ears to the world outside and listen only to God within me . |
| 12 | That 'll save me two pounds out of my purse in the morning then . |
| 13 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 14 | I get head spin , and end up lolling out of the car , dribbling through my nose onto the tarmac just to get the vile bitter taste of nicotine out of my mouth . |
| 15 | The room and my relationship to the room just does n't feel the same . |
| 16 | As time passed , my feelings towards the home slowly changed . |
| 17 | I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing . |
| 18 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 19 | My share of the bill rarely came to less than £30 . |
| 20 | ‘ All the more reason for me to start taking my share of the load as soon as possible . ’ |
| 21 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 22 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 23 | I will post my comments on the game later , which I saw in my local on Sky . |
| 24 | ‘ He wants you , not Sammy or anyone else , and if you wo n't do it , then you 're not just putting Ellen 's money at risk , but you 're putting my commission on the line too , and I might not like that . ’ |
| 25 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 26 | She said something I found so odd that my vision of the world faintly changed and my despair lessened . |
| 27 | Funny thing was , Alex answered the phone and he knows my voice on the phone easily see . |
| 28 | Is it my turn with the Cross already ? |
| 29 | Mr. Walker : Although 1 had intended to publish my detailed answer in the official Report , in view of the Hon. Lady 's long supplementary question , I shall place my answer on the record now . |
| 30 | It is this concern about what is happening that gets me out of my studio into the landscape carefully to scrutinise its every aspect for meanings . |