Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no wish for Doreen to accompany them during this rare opportunity to be alone with Silas ; then she sighed with relief as his next words rang like bells in her ears . |
| 2 | UHA and University House have suffered two sad losses during the year with the deaths of Arthur Butterworth , who was Warden 1968–81 , and Alice Godsell , a faithful supporter to many since her student days of the early 1920s , and UHA wishes to commemorate them through some lasting gifts in House . |
| 3 | It is further acknowledged that each of the parties shall indemnify me for all reasonable costs of defending such actions and proceedings . |
| 4 | Thank you for taking me for that delectable breath of fresh air — it 's something I 'll always remember . ’ |
| 5 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 6 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 7 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me about these risk-taking hobbies of mine . ’ |
| 9 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 10 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 11 | I thought you might be a Windmill girl … come to blackmail me about some drunken indiscretion of mine . |
| 12 | It 's all a bit much for me after all these years as a frog . |
| 13 | Do n't sell yours in any second-hand dealing in the Union . |
| 14 | It does not drive them mad any more than depriving them of any other sort of sleep , although one early report did suggest the reverse , and was highly publicized . |
| 15 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 16 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 17 | It reminds me of those handsome bottles of fruit at Fauchon , their shape and colour not only preserved but given lustre by the amber syrup they bathe in . |
| 18 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 19 | Lord our God , we thank you for these beautiful words from the Masai people . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman , er , I 'd like to thank you for those nice words of introduction but I am particularly delighted as I am a lifelong member of the G M B , of almost thirty five years ' standing , due to my employment with British Gas and my long membership with the Labour Party . |
| 21 | This is to tell you about those raw eggs on Kaarna and in the box from Pike . |
| 22 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 23 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 24 | 15 What is the most important to you of these three aspects of rainforest conservation ? |
| 25 | And having l your mother and father left er , your parents had left you with such low money in the early stages you could n't In any case you could n't My friend was a nurse , but you 'd got to have a special background . |
| 26 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 27 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
| 28 | ca n't you with all those trees up the top , I give up on it . |
| 29 | Did the did the port supply you with any protective clothing at all ? |
| 30 | I 'm writing to you with some good news from Pampers — for your baby , and your baby 's world . |