Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’
15 The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 ?
19 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 .
20 Will you going to on the new one ?
21 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
22 Was there still the erm the , the thing you talked about with the guaranteed work at that time ?
23 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 .
24 By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness .
25 The young and feisty Armour did n't much care for what she thought of as the anglicised overlay of GSA at that time .
26 Of the two prototype rock songwriters , it 's the more worldly Chuck Berry you turn to for the authentic picture of teenage pleasures in Eisenhower 's America : ‘ Gon na write a little letter , Gon na mail it to my local deejay . ’
27 So you start of with the normal counting numbers , and everyone 's quite happy and no problem with that , so we do something like seven add , let's say we do er three add seven , and what does that come to ?
28 The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs .
29 Who 'd you play for in the old pool ?
30 Before we talk about the er er getting to the purpose of our meeting , erm , how long were you , how did you come to in the first place ?
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