Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 2 | I 'll have to you 've got ta give me chance to buy papa and grandma 's grandpa 's and I can wrap them up and give them to them at the golden wedding or ca n't I ? |
| 3 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 4 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 5 | It had an iron gate almost indistinguishable from the railings , and he preceded her through it to the front door which was centrally placed between tall windows , with a bow window above it belonging to the bedroom they would be sharing . |
| 6 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 7 | ‘ The penthouse suite , ’ he announced and , inserting a key into the lock , opened the door and swept her with him into the spacious sitting-room . |
| 8 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 9 | He put an arm round her and hugged her to him in the familiar , easy fashion she was used to . |
| 10 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 11 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 12 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 13 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 14 | They kept the money at their council house in Chard , but took it with them on the rare occasions they went out . |
| 15 | St Boniface took it with him into the Frankish kingdom . |
| 16 | The black lashes flickered as he said , ‘ I 'm sure your father will discuss it with you at the appropriate moment … ’ |
| 17 | Molloy learned it from me at the Imperial Hotel , Blackpool , during one of the duller party conferences . |
| 18 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 19 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |
| 20 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 21 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 22 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 23 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 24 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 25 | , look at the sentence below , will the management charges greatly increase , the answers no because time has shown the management charges rise at a rate below the level of inflation I suggest it to you to the ordinary person , they would think that the management charges there meant the costs that are listed above see |
| 26 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 27 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 28 | He took it into the box where the keeper came out & spread well , but Wallace knocked it over him into the right side of the net . |
| 29 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |