Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 2 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 3 | You — you took advantage of me at a moment of weakness . ’ |
| 4 | Far down in you you felt a new stirring , a new nakedness emerging … the sudden quiver of me at the springing of my seed , then the slow-subsiding thrust . ’ |
| 5 | It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs . |
| 6 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 7 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 8 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 9 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 10 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 11 | And today the public have er returned their gesture in honour of me in the returning of the guilty verdict . |
| 12 | And if People magazine wanted to take a picture of me in the surf with a stuffed animal , or whatever the fuck it was , then hey , the joke 's on them . ’ |
| 13 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 14 | As Stella says : ‘ There 's a load of people in front of me in the queue for jobs , is n't there ? ’ |
| 15 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going . |
| 17 | Provision for the effects of transfers of employees and liabilities in respect of them under the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 and transfers of pension rights . |
| 18 | The Chernobyl Help organization , chaired by chess master Anatoly Karpov , claimed that around 1,000 of the " liquidators " had died , 70 per cent of them under the age of 40 , and that another 5,000 had contracted illnesses related to the accident . |
| 19 | The force of the story threw the four of them into a babble of communion . |
| 20 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 21 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |
| 22 | In McCutcheon v David MacBrayne Ltd Lord Devlin suggested that a course of dealing can only be established where it can be shown that the party against whom the terms are to be enforced had actual knowledge of them as a result of the previous dealings . |
| 23 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 24 | But although it was Tip 's and Arnold 's maiden success , it does not rate as highly with either of them as the victory at Troon the following year . |
| 25 | Under ss 252 to 263 , a debtor can obtain what is , in effect , a moratorium from the court pending the preparation of proposals to be put to his creditors via an insolvency practitioner for the payment of their debts or part of them as an alternative to the debtor 's bankruptcy . |
| 26 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 27 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 28 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 29 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 30 | He fell in alongside two of them at the end of the street . |