Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought about my young wife in the hotel in the village . |
| 2 | I kept quiet about my sneaking affection for grolla — the grappa-laced coffee they serve in rustic wooden loving cups — and the Bar Roma 's wonderfully enveloping sofas , and tagged along . |
| 3 | Well I did n't tell you about my hot date on Wednesday . |
| 4 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 5 | He then continued : ‘ Instead of boring you with yet more politics , I thought I 'd talk to you about my recent trip to Southern Africa . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 7 | I need not go into detail about my long connection with Cornwall and my interest in Celtic history , which had this family origin . |
| 8 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 9 | When I rang Robert Service and invited him to the hotel for a drink he accepted gladly and wanted to hear all about my flying visit to his old stamping grounds . |
| 10 | ‘ My body in your bed in exchange for your acceptance of the truth and an end to your constant comments about my supposed affair with Florian ? |
| 11 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But when I first knew him Gustave used to write frequently about my forthcoming visits to his house . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I enthused about my imaginary prowess in the language , telling him that I hoped to visit Africa that summer . |
| 18 | We were talking about my old friend in Wapping earlier , Michael Ryan . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I started to think about my own skin at that point . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | I made no friends or even close acquaintances during my eighteen months at college . |
| 25 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 26 | During my early years at Lancaster , much of my time was spent in the collaboration with , , and on GCE . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 30 | I explained that this had come out during my long interview with Inspector Drew last night . |