Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company .
2 It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody .
3 Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra .
4 Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate .
5 Still , it was them or a book .
6 In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest .
7 cover your face/nose with warm hands ( yours or a friend 's )
8 Then erm names , babies I if a baby 's christened Timothy er it gets called Timmy or Nicholas gets called Nicky , which sort of ties in with the biscuits being called bickie and horsie and doggie and all this sort of ee things that you say to babies .
9 Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese .
10 I and a few close friends knew , ’ Maggie said .
11 Said Danny , ‘ After I and a BR Personnel Manager had welcomed the men and women , Alan took over to talk about National Insurance contributions and benefits .
12 So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard .
13 and obviously you and I and a few others , but erm
14 As the hybrid motor has two phases the total average mechanical output power is : The term I cos a is eliminated from this equation by constructing the line AA' in the phasor diagram ( Fig. 5.7 ) at an angle a to the phasor Z1 .
15 A small painting of his provided a moment of calm reflection among those of his more raucous colleagues in Alana Heiss ' ‘ Slow Painting ’ show last summer at P.S.I .
16 ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’
17 It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it .
18 If Karr was right , Herrick would have kept copies of all his jobs-as a precaution .
19 It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’
20 Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration .
21 You have yours as a proprietor , but I have mine too .
22 Jason Ashmall lost his as a skilled book binder with 30 years experience in October .
23 Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged .
24 Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged .
25 ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down .
26 It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum .
27 My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through .
28 He tells me that a girlfriend of his was fishing , with her mother , from a rowing boat in the fjord near Tromsø one day .
29 ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’
30 Someone has told me that a new carb would help , someone else reckons the distributor would be best changed .
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