Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ? ’
2 Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks
3 The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Do a few products and then , leave them for a few days and go back and integrate them .
7 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
8 The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same .
9 Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things .
10 The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa .
11 ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’
12 Could I stay with you for a few days and learn how you manage without magic ? "
13 One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production .
14 I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years .
15 But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job .
16 Leo Vincey is forced by the events of She towards the same decision as the one which destroyed his counterpart Kallikrates .
17 Thus the author of A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens , probably Richard Overton , reminded the House of Commons in 1646 that " wee are your Principalls , and you our Agents- … wee possessed you with the same Power that was in our selves …
18 She 'll bring it to you in a few minutes and it 'll help you keep your strength . ’
19 ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me .
20 They do n't heal you in the same way if you ca n't share them ’ .
21 Most mortgage lenders see you in the same light as everyone else and make no concessions to the lifestyle that lies ahead of you .
22 The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way .
23 Crosland had realized ‘ the impossibility , as he saw it , of a Labour Secretary of State taking institutions from urban local education authorities which were predominantly controlled by Labour , and bringing them under the same regime as the universities ’ .
24 You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer .
25 ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis !
26 I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you .
27 It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year .
28 They put me in the same category as Martinho .
29 ‘ DO N'T MENTION me in the same paragraph as Ace ! ’
30 This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists .
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