Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to Granny-Liz : " Becky , with you moving about me here on the verandah , I hope you do n't have any centipedes or scorpions in a jam jar in your pocket . " |
| 2 | Yeah I 'd leave some for them instead of a tree . |
| 3 | She had promised to sing for them later in the evening if she was n't too tired . |
| 4 | ‘ We can wait for them here on the highway . ’ |
| 5 | He 's waitin' for them now at the railway station . |
| 6 | Wearily , she began to look for them all over the theatre . |
| 7 | ‘ You can see from the map how the frontiers between them here in the south are not made very good . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think that is the right thing for me just at the moment . |
| 9 | That holiday morning I found Miss Louise waiting for me just inside the door with a pair of old shoes and a pair of slippers in her hands . |
| 10 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 11 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 12 | ‘ I work rather odd hours but you can always leave a message for me here at the cafe . |
| 13 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 14 | Okay could you sign that for me please down the bottom there . |
| 15 | Too much for me now with the garden and all . |
| 16 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 17 | They 're looking after you well by the look of it |
| 18 | Two years on , with a little help from our excellent childminder I look after him part-time during the week . |
| 19 | SCORPIOS may not like to appear outwardly ambitious but you set yourself specific goals and work relentlessly towards them regardless of the opposition . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 21 | Recent research has shown that people who list the consequences of dieting , positive and negative , and remind themselves of them regularly during the day , do twice as well on their diets as those people who just have routine dietary advice . |
| 22 | How cosy this could have been , the rain lashing down outside providing a curtain from the world and the two of them here with no occupation except to pleasure each other . |
| 23 | Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting . |
| 24 | She washed a Cos lettuce , leaf by leaf , then patted each of them carefully with a tea towel . |
| 25 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 26 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 30 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |