Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 2 | She wore a stiff black silk dress , a lace cap and an expression of disapproval — " I hope they wo n't take me for one of your actress friends , " she boomed . |
| 3 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 4 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 5 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 6 | Ladies and gentlemen , thank you for all for your attendance . |
| 7 | A good starting point for help , if you do n't already have connections in this field , is your bank , who will refer you to one of their specialist export departments or to one of the official export agencies . |
| 8 | I can introduce you to several of my acquaintance . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Did the Admiral talk to you at all about your conduct of the wine committee ? ’ |
| 10 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 11 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 12 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 13 | Two men have stood by him for most of his career — Homer Scott and Ian Ferguson — and it was heartening for Homer that Pat was able to ride Glitter Grey to victory in the Governors Cup at Down Royal . |
| 14 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 15 | As it was , the presence of the tall endocrine specialist had robbed her of most of her appetite . |
| 16 | Although Barry had consistently denied the drug accusations which had bedeviled him throughout much of his time in office , pressure upon him increased significantly following his discovery in December 1988 in a Washington hotel room by police who had arrived to investigate drug allegations against Charles Lewis , a friend of Barry 's . |
| 17 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 18 | He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation . |
| 19 | David Quarmby helped her in choosing these topics and assisted her with some of her coursework . |
| 20 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
| 21 | Those who have not yet had a surfeit of Monsieur Depardieu can see him in one of his period roles in the sumptuous Tout Les Matins Du Monde . |
| 22 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 23 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 24 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 25 | If you change you mind about a particular colour that you have used in your pattern , you can replace it with another from your woolbox collection . |
| 26 | I 'll have it in one of my pocket , pocket at work , you know , and the microphone |
| 27 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Your parents bought it in nineteen-sixty from their landlord . |
| 29 | No one says you ca n't write it down do n't have to do it in all in your head do you . |
| 30 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |