Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Rosen , poet and broadcaster , was the champion of a strategy for reading dependent on enthusing readers by offering them books which they could enjoy , books which had been chosen by them or for them by people who knew about children 's books . |
| 2 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 3 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 4 | You will feel totally alone because you have relied on someone to do things with you and for you for some time . |
| 5 | If so , was she bigger than him or above him in the pecking order ? |
| 6 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 7 | The voice lanced through the blackness , close to him and below him to the right . |
| 8 | Her veil now covered her face , but her mortification was evident to all beside her and around her at the altar-rail . |
| 9 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 10 | I do not think that there is a question of lecturing either of Germany by us or of us by Germany . |
| 11 | So our thanks to those people past and present , sung and unsung , who 've worked with us and for us through ten demanding , deadline-defying years . |