Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 2 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 3 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 4 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 5 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 6 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 7 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 8 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 9 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 10 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 11 | Only in our passion did this not suggest itself to me as mean retention on his part . |
| 12 | Surely someone would look at me back — recognize me as some kind of fellow human being ? |
| 13 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 14 | It is grotesque to portray me as some sort of blue-eyed optimist . |
| 15 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 17 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |
| 18 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 19 | The aim of the project in relation to schools is to regard them as one kind of community group among others . |
| 20 | Concentrations of PCBs in whales and dolphins have been found to be between five and 20 times the level that would classify them as toxic waste in the US . |
| 21 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 22 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 23 | Fortunately , Mike 's mother took them as further manifestation of her confused mental state . |
| 24 | However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers . |
| 25 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 26 | As a result , car-based development policies have tended to reduce the freedom of choice and quality of life of this still numerically significant section of the population , while dramatically increasing them for that section with regular access to a car . |
| 27 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 28 | They apparently need them for all manner of reasons . ’ |
| 29 | The quickest method is pressure cooking — to cook beans , soak them for 1 hour in hot water , then cook for 3 to 5 minutes ( or for 15 minutes if unsoaked ) . |
| 30 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |