Example sentences of "[adv] of [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard quite enough of them at our last meeting . ’ |
| 2 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 3 | Again , it is said pejoratively of him in his native land that , where Morris is the kind of natural breaker who ties in an enemy back row , Jones ‘ breaks at 3:20pm ’ . |
| 4 | He listens , he listens to it afterwards and he goes no I ca n't understand , well now I can , now I can understand why they take the piss out of me for my voice . |
| 5 | the way Jimmy goes , Jimmy goes understand why you always take the piss out of me for my voice |
| 6 | Right when it was pitch dark , yeah , I was half , I was still pissed and I was half asleep and you were p taking the piss out of me behind my back about that . |
| 7 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 8 | What they did n't expect was a sudden erosion of their lead in the later stages of the game , and they were glad to come out of it with their scalp intact . |
| 9 | They said he looked so old , so out of it with his old-fashioned long white locks , pathetic specs , stupid limp , and that cringe-making old coat . |
| 10 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 11 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 12 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 13 | It does not deal with hard-core , habitual car thieves — most of whom are in their teens , and who will grow out of it by their mid-twenties . |
| 14 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 15 | He spoke ill of me to his friends . |
| 16 | BY THE end of this month the International Stock Exchange will have a clearer idea of the problems ahead of it in its establishment of a clearing house for the settlement of share deals . |
| 17 | The Germans are a generation ahead of us with their apprenticeship and their meister or master system ; we 've got to try and catch up . |