Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 2 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 3 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |
| 4 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 5 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 6 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 7 | Here are my notes on the recent form of the top châteaux : |
| 8 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 9 | I did n't much care ; it was only the clumsiness of my fingers around the dip-in pen which was at fault , and nothing more intimate . |
| 10 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 11 | However , David Chadwick , a member of the Liberal Democrats group on the council , said : ‘ All my requests to the chief executive of the council for financial details about this company have been turned down . |
| 12 | One of my contemporaries in the English Department was , now Professor of Linguistics in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia . |
| 13 | But then , just at the point where my doubts about the external world had become a crescendo and I was certain that revelation was nigh , some glitch would occur . |
| 14 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |
| 15 | The result , agreed in a hard-hitting threeminute session involving no agents , or even contracts , is that my performances in the coming cricket season have a price on them . |
| 16 | To add to my anxieties about the early start , my husband and I were due to attend a charity casino evening in Kenilworth on the Saturday night , an event which I knew would continue into the early hours . |
| 17 | Although I have based my designs on the blue-white-yellow colour combinations , there is no reason why you should n't use your own combination if you prefer it . |
| 18 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
| 19 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 20 | An all-nighter was a triumph of will and my eyelids were already dropping , but I kept my eyes on the thin figure . |
| 21 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 22 | A rough horseblanket rubbed against my chin and a lacy canopy of cow parsley shaded my eyes from the bright light . |
| 23 | I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend accept my thanks for the helpful way in which he dealt with my representations on this subject ? |
| 25 | Ed , — I am writing to express , through Link , my thanks for the marvellous gesture by general manager , who instigated a get-together lunch for the Kirkcaldy maltings ' pensioners on . |
| 26 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 27 | What I have said above relates to my experiences with the Philippine health sector between March 1984 and December 1987 . |
| 28 | My experiences with the erratic supply of tubes over the last two years were shared for the benefit of those Guitarist readers who might not know as much as Hartley Peavey . |
| 29 | I lay with my feet toward the open end of the tent , unfastened my canteen and boiled what was left of a cabbage I had bought in Adrar . |
| 30 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |