Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's well , ’ he said seriously , ‘ that you should have a token about you that will get you in to me or the prince at need , and stand you in good stead if ever you should fall foul unawares of any of his officers or mine . |
| 2 | What 's the other reason we want er a nice separation distance between ourselves and the vehicle in front for ? |
| 3 | But especially Peter let's let's think about people like ourselves and the kind of work we do . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves whether the notion of treatment by opposites , which has held the stage for so long , is indeed the false path that Hahnemann considered it to be . |
| 5 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 6 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 7 | Indeed it seems to me that the contribution to date of the voluntary sector to service provision in most sectors has been marginal and peripheral . |
| 8 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 9 | So it seems to me that the existence of death , the fact that organisms do n't live forever , and they certainly are not perfected in terms of personal fitness or survivability , because they get diseases and they die suggests to me that our modern insight into evolution acting on individual genes is , is correct . |
| 10 | In the first place , it seems to me that the switching of price labels on the article is in itself an assumption of one of the rights of the owner , whether or not it is accompanied by some other act such as removing the article from the shelf and placing it in a basket or trolley . |
| 11 | All seems to me and I could quote other other references from P P Gs as well to support the point , seems to me that the thrust of government guidance is balance . |
| 12 | It was the first time that score had been played in Cape Town , and John Wright told me that the players in rehearsal threw down their instruments in despair . |
| 13 | Applying these criteria , it seems to me that the type of deployment of nuclear weapons which can most clearly be argued to entail an illegal threat of force is one which involves a threat of first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | After six competitive games it became clear to me that the standard of football required in the Multivite/Singletons League Division Three was way beyond his ability and so , sadly , I felt the club was no longer able to accommodate him as a player . |
| 15 | It was fairly obvious from the noise coming from behind me that the man in question did remember him fairly clearly . |
| 16 | On the BBC 's Breakfast With Frost programme , Mr Rushdie said : ‘ The people who analyse these threats tell me that the level of threat has never diminished . |
| 17 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 18 | He tells me that the power-cut in south-east London that night began at 7.37 pm , and ended at 9.54 pm . |
| 19 | It , it , it , it , it 's , it , it surprises me that the amount of waste er that the proportion of , of the waste is , is , is fifty percent being er , er , er being builders ' rubble not to put too fine a point on it . |
| 20 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
| 21 | Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too much , but my friend Cully Chatterton tells me that the need for sleep varies considerably from person to person and one must follow one 's inclination . ’ |
| 22 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 23 | It seems to me that the administration in question must be the procedure by which the building societies ' business is conducted within those spheres . |
| 24 | Protests came from the men and the Northern Ireland Office assured them that the change of colour was solely because the black dye previously used was no longer manufactured . |
| 25 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 26 | Avuncular men in their fifties and sixties may not be aware that this term of endearment causes such a reaction ; you could enlighten them by telling them that the form of address is out-of-date and out-of-favour these days . |
| 27 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 28 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him . |
| 29 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
| 30 | In addition Carlsson created a new inner Cabinet comprising himself and the Ministers of Finance , Justice , Labour , Industry and Foreign Affairs . |