Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
2 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
3 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
4 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
6 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
7 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
8 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
9 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
10 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
11 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
12 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
13 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
14 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
15 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
16 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
17 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
18 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
19 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
20 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
21 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
22 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
23 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |
24 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
25 | In a short while , limping and protesting , I found myself at the local prison , pushed into a filthy stinking room with some two dozen other malefactors . |
26 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
27 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
28 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
29 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
30 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |