Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 2 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 3 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 4 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 5 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 7 | The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly . |
| 8 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 9 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 10 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 11 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 12 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 13 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 14 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 15 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 16 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 17 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 18 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 19 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 20 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 21 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 24 | Do a few products and then , leave them for a few days and go back and integrate them . |
| 25 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 26 | They 'll finance me through a part-time degree or a correspondence course in accountancy . |
| 27 | She watches me through a black veil that hangs from a black hat . |
| 28 | A pretty young eunuch in a canary-yellow silk sari led Zakir and me through a vaulted passageway and out into a small courtyard . |
| 29 | Sometimes skipper Geoff Boycott would come up to me during a long spell and ask if I was feeling OK to continue . |
| 30 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |