Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I 've already told you , there is nothing between us except a mutual disenchantment . |
| 2 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 3 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 4 | He sprinted desperately towards the plinth and , as the vase fell , launched himself towards it in a lunging dive . |
| 5 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what happened today — a man I barely know forced himself on me in a snowy field , that 's what happened today . ’ |
| 7 | It was no fun loving a person like Memet , especially when he would n't commit himself to her in a civilized and law-abiding manner . |
| 8 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 9 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 10 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 11 | Yet none of them in the triple realms of Theatre , Television and Film would be anywhere without the Designer . |
| 12 | Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January . |
| 13 | And the small seed of anger against him knotted itself inside her into a hard little core of resentment . |
| 14 | ‘ She … can draw you to her with a single hair ’ , ’ he murmured . |
| 15 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 16 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 17 | Tell us something about you as a human being . |
| 18 | King and keyboard man Mike Lindup have soldiered on , but loyal fans will recall ‘ Something About You as the high point and it 's dispiriting to have a five-year-old record and you one great pleaser in the locker . |
| 19 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 20 | I was fed up after weeks of playing deck quoits and shuffleboard , and the Mantela appeared to be the perfect introduction to the South Seas for , instead of going straight to Sanderstown , she would call at Rarotonga , and spend a day or two there , so I would be able to fit in a visit to another island and see something of it at a leisurely pace . |
| 21 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 22 | Freddy was the only one of us with a real paying summer job . |
| 23 | Communication affects each one of us in every possible way in all our dealings with our fellow humans — across time ( through generations ) and space ( around the world ) . |
| 24 | Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed . |
| 25 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 26 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
| 27 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 28 | That does not mean we will hear nothing from them for the next 25 days . |
| 29 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 30 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |