Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 2 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 3 | Just to cheer you up , I shall tell you about my journey home from the BBC . |
| 4 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
| 5 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 6 | ‘ But we only learnt he was called Raphael about eight weeks ago , during my visit here before Lent . ’ |
| 7 | I said I 'd bottle of wine off my dad just for us three , that 's just for us three . |
| 8 | ‘ I ai n't breaking no law , guvnor , I 'm just borrowing a few pence off my friend here for a drink . ’ |
| 9 | Through my head down to the centre of the earth : |
| 10 | And it is not just the newspapers , I 've had more than my fair share of his election missives shoved through my letterbox along with all the other junk mail . |
| 11 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 12 | no you give me a pound for my lunch out of there |
| 13 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 14 | ‘ As for my standing up for you , ’ he said now , out of the blue , ‘ why do n't you want me to ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 16 | I would appreciate if any future correspondence could be forwarded for my attention instead of C M Galbraith . |
| 17 | ‘ I WILL be back at work for my shift tonight at 10.30 ’ — miner Bernard Amos after being trapped by a roof fall for more than eight hours . |
| 18 | I was expected home for my husband only in the evenings . |
| 19 | We cut a mask for my face out of a balaclava and made it black with boot polish . |
| 20 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 21 | I went to Westminster one night in mid-March , and was waiting for my bus just outside the Abbey . |
| 22 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 23 | The British squad members may not be fully rested after their return yesterday from a 2½-week training trip to the United States , but their presence will serve as a psychological boost to their teams . |
| 24 | The dependency perspective focused attention on this unequal relationship between , on the one hand , mighty TNCs and the powerful home countries that looked after their interests all over the globe and , on the other , the relatively weak and powerless Third World countries in which they were involved . |
| 25 | In this case , the phenomenon is the appearance of attributive adjectives after their noun instead of before ; the by-product is the opportunity for speakers to use this less usual placing , where it is available , as a marker of emphasis ; the true cause of the phenomenon , in our view , is yet to be established . |
| 26 | It was warm , almost uncomfortably so after their nights out under the stars , and Paige felt the stickiness of it on her skin . |
| 27 | ‘ But now , after their time together on the mainland , she must have known he truly loved her , ’ Ruth insisted . |
| 28 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 29 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 30 | John McGuire was slightly the worse for wear after his night out with his wife . |