Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |
| 2 | Bye bye money , give me that in a minute will you ? |
| 3 | Pain and suffering — what did suffering mean to them except as a path to purity ? ’ |
| 4 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 5 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 6 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 7 | A palliasse had been laid for me and in a corner were the rolled palliasses of others . |
| 8 | Indeed , some main roads represent corridors of distribution ; objects like pottery are found along them and for a distance on either side , but the number of object-discoveries diminishes rapidly beyond a certain distance from the road . |
| 9 | I have to write to them and ask them and about a month later they reply to me and I pass it on to her . |
| 10 | . ’ Her words were cut off when his mouth covered hers , but when she clawed at him , one of his hands caught her wrists and held them and in a voice such as he had never used before , a deep moaning voice , he said , ‘ It 'll be all right . |
| 11 | He was in authority over them and in a class above them . |
| 12 | The curtains fluttered as the figure moved behind them and in a moment parted to reveal a metal bedstead with a grubby patchwork quilt , shelves jostling with books — and Vic , or so Mungo presumed . |
| 13 | Oh that is big age , is she still with you or in a home ? |
| 14 | and I 'll give you that as a receipt |
| 15 | Does n't it matter to you that in a place where you can now hear birdsong there 'll be pop music blaring and loudspeakered announcements from morning to night ? |
| 16 | If you 're not a member of the club and you 're not accepted the rituals and people do n't like you , they wo n't tell you and as a result you wo n't be an effective hunter , you wo n't be able to support many wives even if you wanted them and if you have wives what they needed , because if a man does n't feed his wives they , they , they all eventually get up and go , they 'll say two fingers you know , you ca n't feed us . |
| 17 | I am writing to you because of a letter in the autumn 1991 issue . |
| 18 | Officials were trying to move them but after a word with our security people , we allowed them to stay . |
| 19 | We know that the eye-spots do startle them because of a series of careful field-tests . |
| 20 | ‘ The idea came to me because as a 15-year-old I worked as a plumber in churches and was impressed by the windows , ’ said Dave . |
| 21 | He must have liked the look of me because after a bit more discussion he said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to learn you to milk , and learn you to feed calves and the rest will follow on . |
| 22 | The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison . |
| 23 | Erm give him that on a calculator , some things add one , |
| 24 | that , if you 've got a , an H Q graduate if you call him that on a job he 's still charged that job . |
| 25 | I tell him that in a depression , manners are the first casualties . |
| 26 | Ken told him that after a performance of Call My Bluff a woman approached him and asked , ‘ Any chance of a fuck ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was going all right , but now it wo n't go at all , ’ she added more slowly , as she struggled for composure and it dawned on her that with a GB plate stuck on the back of her car that it would n't take a genius to work out that she was probably English . |
| 28 | When Ariel gently lifted the old woman to move her to her own quarters up the path in the forest , Sycorax gave a huge cry , the folding of her body in Ariel 's arms shot fiery rivers of pain through her that for a while swallowed up all the others she suffered from her burns . |
| 29 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 30 | Then her arms went about him and there was a heat in her that for a moment matched his own . |