Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 2 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | The speech received much applause , and my remarks about the regalia were given prominence in the next day 's papers . |
| 7 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | We did a lot of woodwork at our school , and the other kids liked to lock me and my friends in the storeroom and have us chant ‘ Manchester United , Manchester United , we are the boot boys ’ as they held chisels to our throats and cut off our shoelaces . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How on earth could you talk to an old lady like that , and my grandmother into the bargain ? |
| 12 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 13 | Even with two feet and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 14 | Even with two feel and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 19 | I was quite satisfied , in the light of that information and my discussions with the persons referred to in paragraph 4 , that the documents the subject of the notice were required and indeed were necessary in order for the Bank to discharge its supervisory functions in respect of the [ defendants ] under the Act . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The room and my relationship to the room just does n't feel the same . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | From all my travels , and my journeys across the galaxies , I always return to this country , in this time zone . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 30 | And then you mentioned Thorn House , and my birth on the same day as Donna , and she was so shocked she spilled her tea . |