Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 2 | I lay like a fool , my heart pounding into the floor . |
| 3 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 4 | I got my Chelsea ticket through the post and had to be restrained from ripping it up by my girlfriend . |
| 5 | I left my blanket roll by the door and went around behind the counter and started making out a passenger list and tickets . |
| 6 | My plaster of paris plaque of Robes-pierre had smashed in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake , thrown from the wall of my sitting room in the Adobe motel . |
| 7 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 8 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 9 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 10 | One of my favourite species is the bream , not for his superior fighting power , for he does not test my tackle to any great degree , but because he tests my thinking power to the limit . |
| 11 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 12 | This ritual of identification was used to preface a more titillating by-line : MY BEDROOM BATTLE WITH THE FOX Pages 23 , 24 and 25 . |
| 13 | The face is covered with hair , matted filthy hair like my gypsy hair in the dream . |
| 14 | ‘ She and her magic made my horse slip on the ice last night . ’ |
| 15 | … My return journey with the soup took twenty minutes ; the soup was cold , and the Empress had fallen asleep in her chair . |
| 16 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 17 | There are yours , ’ and he pointed at the papers and my escape equipment on the table . |
| 18 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 19 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 20 | I knew I 'd met my fate right from the start ! ’ |
| 21 | We gave my home address over the air so that volunteers could send me a stamped , self-addressed envelope so that I could forward them a diet sheet . |
| 22 | But the thought that a credit card company — or some sleazy store — might one day reveal the contents of my shopping bag to the nation ( or , more particularly , to my husband ) fills me with a very real dread . |
| 23 | Getting my zimmer frame into the boat is a bit tricky ! |
| 24 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 25 | Says Tricia with a sigh , ‘ Forty marked the moment when I finally turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 27 | My most vivid memory is not the accident , but my telephone call to the car rental company later that morning . |
| 28 | I personally never start my exercise routine with the head and neck exercises in which you look from side to side and circle the head round . |
| 29 | Limping down that glossy road , the yellow brick road to my fantasy land of the past , I was consumed with an expectation which would have been delightful save for the physical effect of breathlessness . |
| 30 | I shook my head , my attention half on the road . |