Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 32 | But when I first knew him Gustave used to write frequently about my forthcoming visits to his house . |
| 33 | My friend Bar , though , was an East Yorkshire farmer 's daughter , and while she was cautious about my intellectual defiance of convention she had a country practical acceptance of the body and physical desire . |
| 34 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ But of course if you tell Gran about my broken shoe on Sunday there really wo n't be any need for her to know . ’ |
| 36 | I enthused about my imaginary prowess in the language , telling him that I hoped to visit Africa that summer . |
| 37 | We were talking about my old friend in Wapping earlier , Michael Ryan . |
| 38 | I 'm afraid I started to think about my own skin at that point . |
| 39 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 40 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 41 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 42 | When he wrote The Childhood at the age of thirty-five , Thomas associated this sudden interest in poetry with a sex-stirred liking for a ‘ tall thin freckled girl of about my own age with good rather large features , dark hair and grey eyes , and an austere expression ’ . |
| 43 | I made no friends or even close acquaintances during my eighteen months at college . |
| 44 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 45 | During my early years at Lancaster , much of my time was spent in the collaboration with , , and on GCE . |
| 46 | This same man wrote that he ‘ could not remember having ever felt , during my 52 years of life , the slightest symptoms of that curious disease — ambition — which craves for leadership , honour , money , or notoriety ’ . |
| 47 | The first I see during my annual sojourn in Florida — the beautiful pendant flowers of Hibiscus schizopetalus with ferny swept-back petals hanging from a 6ft ( 1.8m ) bush . |
| 48 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 49 | I explained that this had come out during my long interview with Inspector Drew last night . |
| 50 | I have discovered , Miss Honey , during my long career as a teacher that a bad girl is a far more dangerous creature than a bad boy . |
| 51 | At some time during my second afternoon at the centre , a Bonny Baby competition was held , but I missed it all in a blur of Mickeys . |
| 52 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 53 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 54 | During my second evening at the hotel there was a knock at the door . |
| 55 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
| 56 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 57 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 58 | The need to have my own quiet corner became a priority during my first Easter in Cotherstone , when I was a bit depressed . |
| 59 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 60 | DURING my first year of A levels I noticed a swelling in one of my testes . |