Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun] [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 | The speech received much applause , and my remarks about the regalia were given prominence in the next day 's papers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How on earth could you talk to an old lady like that , and my grandmother into the bargain ? |
| 10 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 11 | Even with two feet and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 12 | Even with two feel and my back against the other side I could n't budge it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The room and my relationship to the room just does n't feel the same . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From all my travels , and my journeys across the galaxies , I always return to this country , in this time zone . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And then you mentioned Thorn House , and my birth on the same day as Donna , and she was so shocked she spilled her tea . |
| 29 | We three travelled up in the lift of the Hotel Vancouver together and perhaps just to make conversation I mentioned my trip to the Haida reservation and my feelings about the neglect of our Indians . |
| 30 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |