Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like — if you said to an adman : use some real people , use me or my friends in your ad , they would say : it wo n't sell . |
| 2 | The examples do not identify the article or journal concerned , but each example has happened to me or my coauthors during submissions to what are generally regarded as quality journals . |
| 3 | Members of the committee are entitled to receive any travelling expenses directly incurred by them or their representatives in attending at committee meetings or otherwise on the committee 's business ( r 6.164 ) . |
| 4 | People came in and out , but he did n't really notice them or their words of encouragement . |
| 5 | We experience guilt when we blame ourselves or our actions for events . |
| 6 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 7 | We really needed her and were anxious to present ourselves and our properties in the best possible light . |
| 8 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 9 | ( 15 ) If a tender offer is made in competition with an offer made under the Code , the Panel must be consulted and consideration will be given to extending the offer period of the Code offer , circulating the tender offer to all shareholders and requiring the buyer to disclose dealings of his and his associates in accordance with Rule 8. 4.8 What is the difference between a partial offer and a tender offer ? |
| 10 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 12 | As we debated the awards in Government , various colleagues told me that my arguments for reductions were ‘ egalitarian ’ and that the pay increase for judges would in no way influence the expectations of the nurses and the ancillary workers . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 14 | It does not seem to bother them that their chances of survival are low , but then only the most crazed Goblins would want to be propelled high into the air anyway . |
| 15 | If they find that their plans can not be carried out , this teaches them that their anticipations concerning the decisions of others were overly optimistic . |
| 16 | Eton , however , meant far more to me than my relationships with others , or the learning I acquired or the games I played . |
| 17 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 18 | Her or his rights before the law are , for example , deemed to be equal to those of a company director . |
| 19 | And he had all these pictures of himself and his friends at university with oars crossed above them , and a coloured one of the Highlands with hairy cattle paddling in a lake , and one of his father with his dogs , and such a lovely picture of his wife — dead she was , poor soul — and another big picture of Venice with gondolas and a lot of foreigners in fancy dress , and a cartoon of Dr. Mac done by one of his friends , showing the friend lying dead , and Dr. Mac in his deerstalker hat looking for clues with his magnifying glass . |
| 20 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 21 | In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language , he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying : ‘ Nobody could take that as a criticism — this is an investor group . |
| 22 | The count of Toulouse was present to answer charges of heresy and so to protect himself and his lands against Simon de Montfort . |
| 23 | Cotton marketed himself and his talents in the same way . |
| 24 | He was using an elderly Austin A35 van to ferry himself and his sons around London . |
| 25 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 26 | Thirdly , by agreeing to hold the duchy of Aquitaine as an hereditary fief from the crown of France , Henry III was putting both himself and his heirs into an untenable position since a king in his own right was to perform liege homage to another king . |
| 27 | Finally , in 1544 Stumpe consolidated his interest in the property by paying over £1,500 for a royal grant to himself and his heirs of the whole site of the abbey . |
| 28 | Ken , meanwhile , told the most outrageous tales about himself and his views on sex — occasionally with Lou present . |
| 29 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 30 | It was clear that Hitler was mentally preparing himself and his assistants for all possible configurations of alliance and animosity . |