Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 2 | Yet aside from that , my admiration for him as a person is perhaps as great as my fear of him . |
| 3 | With the tenderest of smiles , he proferred my watch to me in an open palm . |
| 4 | I have my breakfast to cook and today 's the day of the Two Thousand Guineas , I ca n't keep my mind on everything at the one time . " |
| 5 | And certainly from my submission to you in the Selby district , I have shown that er the the plan which was enclosed with the written evidence . |
| 6 | I do n't like him at all , and if he was going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright , I could n't care less , and it would n't change my opinion of him as a man , which is that he 's — ’ |
| 7 | I 've been keeping my eye on her for a while , but it seems she 'd been returning the favour without my being aware of it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had my eye on it for a while , but as an accountant I like to think I 'm getting a bargain , ’ says Mark . |
| 9 | I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously . |
| 10 | He came out of the phone-box and I pushed my bicycle beside him through the crowds . |
| 11 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 12 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 13 | Will you take my dress with you to the villa , Rosie ? ’ |
| 14 | After delivering my message to him under a plate on his dinner tray she had gone outside to sit under the tree in the warm evening air . |
| 15 | I shut my eyes and hold my lace to hers for a long time . |
| 16 | I aimed my camera at them over the fence , |
| 17 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 18 | A strong intellectual or emotional appeal may reinforce self-image ; the appeal bolsters up my idea of myself as a rational/analytical/ thinking person or as a warm/empathetic/sensitive one . |
| 19 | I 'd no idea , you see , that you saw my treatment of you as a reflection of your father 's , just another variation of the same problem . |
| 20 | I put my arm around her in a chaste , consoling embrace . |
| 21 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 22 | ‘ You can come to my office with me in the morning and we can see her as she leaves King 's House . ’ |
| 23 | During a walkabout on Merseyside , the Princess of Wales was overcome by tears after the crowd voiced their support for her amid the current press controversy surrounding her marriage . |
| 24 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 25 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 26 | If his claim stands up , it establishes that at least part of the redshift in the light from some astronomical objects is not produced simply by their recession from us in the expanding Universe , and that blunts the cutting edge of the most important tool in observational cosmology . |
| 27 | She is placing her faith in them in the hope that they will restore respect for the monarchy . |
| 28 | I could n't concentrate on the film at all , I was so aware of her presence beside me in the flickering darkness . |
| 29 | And the secular armies which established her hegemony for her on the Continent were in no position to undertake a full-scale military campaign against Ireland . |
| 30 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |