Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretary of State cos I mean in in the wrong hands their worth each form 's worth two thousand and |
| 2 | I mean like like the heavy furniture . |
| 3 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 4 | Nevertheless we were very glad to have someone to talk to in the long reaches of the night when we were struggling to keep our eyes open . |
| 5 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 7 | I duck from beneath the spastic neon of a porno parlour , spotlit and anonymous , and there she is , eating popcorn or chestnuts from a paper cone . |
| 8 | Although I have to say that the implication in two eight three that Labour is flirting with workfare is misplaced , we 've said some harsh things about the Party this week , but there is no possibility that I know of of the Labour Party supporting any form of workfare whatsoever . |
| 9 | I have shamefully mixed feelings about the F-word , because the valorous riflemen I served with in the last war could hardly utter a sentence without it . |
| 10 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 11 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 12 | Most dishearteningly , Sports Illustrated , the country 's premier sports magazine , sent over ex-Patriot Clive Gammon ( who I talked to at the US-New Zealand and England matches ) but not one line has appeared in the magazine yet . |
| 13 | In particular , her hatred of her body and her description of her breasts as ‘ useless lumps of flesh ’ echo the feelings of other girls I spoke to about the female body . |
| 14 | Whenever you decide to pick some wild flowers — which is not an idea I concur with at the best of times — you must never , ever , remove part of the root as this reduces the size of the plant that other people could enjoy . |
| 15 | ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’ |
| 16 | The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner . |
| 17 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 18 | The earliest substantial collection of pile fabrics in existence , which dates from between the 5th and 10th centuries AD , was excavated from the burial grounds of Akhmim and Faiyum in Egypt , and other specimens from the same period have been found throughout Turkey , Central Asia and other pars of the Orient . |
| 19 | Perhaps they arise because the government does not recognize the true costs of its new policies , or perhaps because of a resistance to making a particular policy effective which comes from within the central government machine . |
| 20 | Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished . |
| 21 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 22 | In effect , those who operated from within the comfy confines of the constitutional approach , froze the constitution when the set-up is never fixed . |
| 23 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 24 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 25 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 26 | What I want you to look for in the next little passage that we look at is the way that the Sanhedrin present their case to Pontius Pilate . |
| 27 | Will you going to on the new one ? |
| 28 | I 'll have I mean I 'm having er a weekend in Lytham so I might er take stuff up with me , you know for for the odd |
| 29 | Was there still the erm the , the thing you talked about with the guaranteed work at that time ? |
| 30 | RO Of the Italian-born singers you worked with in the 1950s one thinks of Tito Gobbi in Falstaff and Rolando Panerai , who appeared on so many of your recordings — your Guglielmo in the famous Così fan tutte , di Luna in Il trovatore , and Ford on both your recordings of Falstaff . |