Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned , beamed a toothy non-smile at me for about a micro-second , then strode determinedly on . |
| 2 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 3 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 4 | If you have bought fresh livers , put them in a bowl of tepid , slightly salted water and leave them for about a couple of hours . |
| 5 | He said he was sure the shop assistants would know what he wanted them for from the way he asked . |
| 6 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | Not that syrupy old Whatsisname you told me about at the beginning … |
| 8 | I put three pounds to win on a horse in the two-fifty , and then five pounds to win on the ‘ dead cert ’ this fellow had told me about in the three-fifteen or three-twenty — something like that . ’ |
| 9 | By the way , I 've brought all my clothes downstairs , and I 've hung yours up in the cupboard in the bedroom . |
| 10 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 11 | And you can show them of between an eighteen and twenty four percent saving on their business travel . |
| 12 | Even the Dutch , who colonized the nation longer than any other Western power , were more interested in trading posts than in exploration , and vested their authority in the local chieftains who in turn vested theirs on down the line so that a great many Indonesians have still never seen a European . |
| 13 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 14 | British Rail have nothing to report and I 've no problems to tell you about on the local buses either . |
| 15 | So we shall use this at our great banquet which I 'll tell you about in a moment when we go round , which is our next event . |
| 16 | Erm the doctors who 've identified you as as a company they would be very happy to see er supporting this venture and er I 've I 've I 'm cont contacting you with a view of of outlining what we do |
| 17 | ‘ Who were you with at the Lyric ? |
| 18 | ‘ Is that the wench I met you with in the High Street ? |
| 19 | She lives in Beith where she in on the committee of the Earl Haig Fund Charity . |
| 20 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 21 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
| 22 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 23 | The cabinet is made from chipboard , with rugged overriders on each corner , while the 8 inch speaker peeps at you from behind a sort of nylon fabric . |
| 24 | ‘ Daahling , it 's David , I 'm calling you from behind a tree , ’ he cooed into his ministerial mobile , refusing to be daunted by the haughty stares of the opera world . |
| 25 | Weirdest of all is the studio , in which a Madame Tussaud 's waxwork stares out of the half-light at you from behind the control-room glass . |
| 26 | Well if they take you on on the basis that you do n't have to work Sundays , they ca n't change the regulations when you 're working . |
| 27 | It an add-in exists to solve your specific problem , we will undertake to find it for you to at the best price . |
| 28 | We have chosen to look at these through the medium of Palatine Ales , the company we introduced you to in the previous case . |
| 29 | But if i see you at towards the end of the And the packs are all labelled , it 's very |
| 30 | When you re at an all-boys school that is really important It s so hard to meet , let alone get off with , girls at an all-boys school . |