Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mozart playing serenely on the car 's stereo masked the tension between them during the drive home . |
| 2 | You may see them during the summer when they rest in Britain . |
| 3 | Although these patients may have used bronchodilators intermittently in the past for control of asthma , none required them during the week before endoscopy . |
| 4 | Jackie led them through the wood where Joy Prentice had fled and fallen , then along the banks of the stream which fed the water-wheel , to a small wooden bridge . |
| 5 | At his command all four took off their masks and tracksuit tops and threw them through the windows on to the garage floor . |
| 6 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 7 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 8 | And I could never sit through all these interviews , transcribing them off the tape afterwards . |
| 9 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 10 | ‘ You could meet me for a drink sometimes . ’ |
| 11 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 12 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 13 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 14 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 15 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 16 | Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ? |
| 17 | With any luck my father would n't call me for the milking too early ; he generally does n't when I 've been out on patrol the night before . |
| 18 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 19 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 20 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 21 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 22 | ‘ Jason excites me as a player just as much as Gregory or Alex Murphy did when they where 18year-olds , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson . |
| 23 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 24 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 25 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 26 | It is important that the children should be able to play freely in this way , and again although it might be appropriate to talk with them about the materials beforehand or afterwards , if a model has been completed , a great deal can be learnt simply by observation . |
| 27 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 28 | Whether , you know , people might have bought them as a set otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 30 | These are n't necessarily the sort of persons I want to have anything to do with anyway , " Quiss said , indicating the various attendants , waiters and scullions around them as the under-cook respectfully approached the seneschal , bowing to him . |