Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eased me into a role he had only half-consciously cast me for without my noticing it and , by emphasizing the physical attraction I had for him , he made me feel imperative . |
| 2 | I said ‘ Hello , you are looking well ’ , He said ‘ I do n't know you ’ , to which I replied ‘ I do n't expect you to , you have n't seen me for over 2O years . |
| 3 | She turned , beamed a toothy non-smile at me for about a micro-second , then strode determinedly on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The brick was wrapped in two notes , the first apologised for the mess and the second , bearing Trevor Proby 's signature , offered to lend me the £250 the club are still trying to stitch me for after that car boot sale fiasco . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think it maybe has to be said that we we picked these figures , not because we wanted to talk about the figures , but simply to use them as for you to hang on to . |
| 8 | You might as well hand it to them as as as a gift . |
| 9 | Now might as well leave them as as twenty eighths . |
| 10 | Lift your legs slightly against the force of gravity , holding them for at least ten seconds , then let them relax again . |
| 11 | Discussion of issues surrounding electronic records is not novel ; archivists have been concerned with them for at least the last three decades . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I bet , I bet the plain poor people wanting them for Christmas would n't bother to send them , well she kept them for over Christmas . |
| 14 | He said he was sure the shop assistants would know what he wanted them for from the way he asked . |
| 15 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | No it 's really good , you can have them for like two days and it 's only a pound , it 's really good . |
| 17 | I think what what what never ceases to amaze me about about people in the flats on benefit , is is how many of them do manage , how many of them never owe a penny . |
| 18 | Not that syrupy old Whatsisname you told me about at the beginning … |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 21 | We should n't kid ourselves for in factories and workplaces around the country G M B and T & G are at each other 's throats . |
| 22 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 23 | This was an important first principle , and one which we constantly have to remind ourselves of in days of limited resources . |
| 24 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 25 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 26 | By the way , I 've brought all my clothes downstairs , and I 've hung yours up in the cupboard in the bedroom . |
| 27 | And then you could say well we could try threes try that see if you could make em into into sets of three . |
| 28 | ‘ I in at my wits ’ end . |
| 29 | A friend and I in in our church we 've started erm a mother and toddler service and that seemed to really help a lot of the young mums they really look forward and they said could we have it more often . |
| 30 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |