Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 3 | I am sorry that I had to deceive you just now ; I am from the Military Police Special Investigation Branch . ’ |
| 4 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 5 | ‘ 'E was weird , 'im , ’ recalls Rolling Stone BILL WYMAN of The Rolling Stones , in his autobiography , I 'M In The Rolling Stones , Me . |
| 6 | ‘ 'E was weird , 'im , ’ recalls Rolling Stone BILL WYMAN of The Rolling Stones , in his autobiography , I 'M In The Rolling Stones , Me . |
| 7 | I 'm among the 10 winners of your Pick Competition . |
| 8 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 9 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 10 | As a preliminary test of the prediction that the larger the variance of DMR the smaller the coefficient β , D present a figure which we reproduce in figure 6.1 , which is a plot of the 11 estimates of the coefficient on unanticipated monetary growth in the output equations , the β i 's against the corresponding estimates of the unpredictability of monetary growth as measured by the sum of squared residuals in the money growth equations . |
| 11 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 12 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 13 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 14 | I was at the last Olympics and it was a tremendous experience . |
| 15 | I was in the early stages of pregnancy , so skating was no longer a sensible pastime . |
| 16 | I was in the central Cubs and we used to go up there to lime pits and round Lingley Woods you know on days out tracking and all that sort of thing . |
| 17 | ITEM : I was in the editorial offices of a magazine in New York City , and overheard a staff writer discussing a forthcoming feature with one of his colleagues . |
| 18 | I was in the Happy Isles , on Third Avenue . |
| 19 | Alf , works manager of an engineering firm in Runcorn , said : ‘ I was in the Royal Engineers and very friendly with Benny , who was in the navy , and Josefa , in the army . |
| 20 | You know how popular you are with the single ladies . ’ |
| 21 | It is that sort of falling-together that reassures you are on the right lines . |
| 22 | Here at last you are in the real mountains , with the highest peaks going up to some 5,000 feet . |
| 23 | When you are in the lower echelons of any service , you are left guessing a lot of the time . |
| 24 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 25 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 26 | If you are among the many pensioners who had their pension deferred ( in other words you put off receiving it ) as a means of escaping the earnings Rule , you have the choice whether to start claiming your pension or to continue deferment . |
| 27 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 28 | Right , you 're on the right lines . |
| 29 | You 're , you 're on the right lines , you 're on the right lines . |
| 30 | You 're , you 're on the right lines , you 're on the right lines . |