Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the difficulty with words is probably due to pupils ' problems with the concepts involved and to questions about them being out of context . |
| 2 | ‘ What are we gon na do about them aliens now ? ’ |
| 3 | I suppose I got more bullied into it through me family really , to get off it , so I never really had the push to come off it . |
| 4 | As the long silence lengthened between them Laura desperately tried to find some adequate words to express her disgust at his actions . |
| 5 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ Ca n't use Finn for me puppets again , ’ he grumbled . |
| 7 | An example of such a statement might be , " For me life simply has no meaning " , or , " Even when I am enjoying myself I often feel that I do n't belong " . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did n't she send for me years ago ? |
| 9 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 10 | He 's got to get after them balloons again , today , as soon as possible . |
| 11 | But looking back I think of them as compensation for the rest of me life before , and what 's to come … |
| 12 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 13 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 14 | I might want to take one of me girl-friends out there one of these nights . |
| 15 | I honestly ca n't for the life of me figure out how to express the rest so I hope you 'll forgive me if I stop here . |
| 16 | Doyle drew his restless gaze from the banks of silent consoles , and the rows of operators , many of them girls hardly out of school , and watched Cowley tear the sheet off and finish his cursory read of the contents . |
| 17 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 18 | Six or seven hundred members — many of them students outwardly scornful of the underground — proved to be quite sufficient to provide an organizational web around which the VSC could be built . |
| 19 | ‘ The literati had never seen one of them things before , ’ Montague says today . |
| 20 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 21 | I tell you summat , if I do n't get one of them bags off of . |
| 22 | They had some of them chickens in for one pound thirty odd , you know when it 's got sign up on video ? |
| 23 | 11,000 people are packed onto the shoreline , some of them ankle deep in sea-water . |
| 24 | He used a couple of them bits before if that 's all the same to you . |
| 25 | My son gave me one of them years ago . |
| 26 | Most of them fish legally for sharks , but some still illegally net totoaba , and the 125- and 150-mm ( 5 and 6-inch ) mesh nets they use continue to drown the vaquita . |
| 27 | But he 's one of them lads where she 'll never have owt , cos he do n't do , he wo n't bloody work will he ? |
| 28 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 29 | ‘ One of them places where they have rooms for drivers to kip down for the night . |
| 30 | MGM , Fox , Warner and RKO made a substantial number of films out of London , many of them spectaculars rather than authentically British productions , and a number of producers like Albert ( ‘ Cubby ’ ) Broccoli and Sam Spiegel moved from America to the UK . |