Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 2 | It took about a minute to get the rifle in place and my head in the correct position , cheek by stock , and still the beast had n't moved a millimetre . |
| 3 | This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor ! |
| 4 | MRS Jacki Taylor , 37 , senior sales manager at Swithland 's Hall Green branch , Birmingham , said her success in the motor trade was due to her ability to ‘ talk to people at all levels and my knowledge of the product ’ . |
| 5 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 6 | How on earth could you talk to an old lady like that , and my grandmother into the bargain ? |
| 7 | Even with two feet and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 8 | Even with two feel and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 9 | I had no food with me and , exhausted by the day 's walking and my mismanagement of the day 's end ( no sundowners that night ) , I went to bed early , in the room to the left , planning a stupendous breakfast the next morning in the first hotel en route for Fort William . |
| 10 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 11 | His statement is also that of Psalm 68 ( verse 24 ) where the presence of my God and my King in the sanctuary is not plain but celebrated in a rich display of singers , musicians , and ‘ damsels playing with timbrels ’ . |
| 12 | My body will cease to be the temple of physical perfection that it currently is , my old aches and pains will return and my reliance on the ministrations of the NHS will increase . |
| 13 | The room and my relationship to the room just does n't feel the same . |
| 14 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 15 | I 'd like to move a petition containing two hundred and forty four signatures and my name on the green order page and I ask that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 16 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 17 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
| 18 | I could no more pretend that the Jesus-figure , indeed the Jesus of the kerygma , is unimportant to me than I could deny the significance of my parents and my past in the shaping of my future . ’ |
| 19 | I did not mention my own strange adventure on Winter Marsh , but I did describe Seddon 's and my experience at the flat in Yardarm Square . |
| 20 | And then you mentioned Thorn House , and my birth on the same day as Donna , and she was so shocked she spilled her tea . |
| 21 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 22 | Congress , I joined the Labour Party and I became a Socialist , I remain a member of the Labour Party , I remain a Socialist , I 'm a trade unionist , I wo n't give up my Labour Party membership and I wo n't give up my involvement to my trade union and my linkage between the trade union movement and the Labour Party without a fight . |
| 23 | My concern about this criterion and and my concern about the information asked by the panel , is of course the area of search includes areas which I do n't think any house builder would consider falls within the York housing market . |
| 24 | There was plenty of flying , sport , and my work on the aircraft was nearer to the pulse of the Air Force than I had been before . |
| 25 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 26 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 27 | Hasty eating and my anxiety for the General 's welfare , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ She told me there was this letter from Stan , questioning my loyalty to Barnet and my commitment to the club . |
| 29 | I lost my part yesterday and my place in the company . |
| 30 | I closed the door and propped a piece of wood against it , then stood for a while , letting my eyes adjust to the gloom and my mind to the feel of the place . |