Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you make sketches of me through the spy-hole when I was undressing ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 4 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 5 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 6 | Far down in you you felt a new stirring , a new nakedness emerging … the sudden quiver of me at the springing of my seed , then the slow-subsiding thrust . ’ |
| 7 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 8 | It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs . |
| 9 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 10 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 11 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 12 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 13 | rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I . |
| 14 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 16 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 17 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 18 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 19 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 20 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
| 21 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 22 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 23 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 24 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
| 25 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 26 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 28 | If one of those things does n't t ally with the record of me on the machine , then the doors will lock — including the doors to the elevators — and alarms will sound in about twenty places on the compound as well as in New York . ’ |
| 29 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 30 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |