Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I end up feeling sorry for him every time I watch it |
| 2 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 3 | David Tindle gained the impression , from conversations with Minton , that for him the central concern was the structuring of human content into form . |
| 4 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 5 | That 's er here you are young William and that should get rid of that for you no bother at all . |
| 6 | It will be nice if you could get somebody to do this for you every day would n't it ? |
| 7 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 8 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 9 | " That 'll give some of them a surprise , wo n't it ? " |
| 10 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 11 | Why , are they some of them a bit |
| 12 | and some of them a bit it 's all sales talk |
| 13 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 14 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 15 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 16 | One of the more spectacular sites is in Gregory , Texas , where some 4 million tonnes of bauxite are kept in dumps , some of them the height of a six storey building . |
| 17 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 18 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
| 19 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
| 20 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 21 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |
| 22 | I have no quarrel with the thesis , and considerable admiration for the accumulation of evidence , though what presumably were the chronic delays of publishing leave some of it a little dated , But I have to admit to irritation with the manner in which the material is presented . |
| 23 | He had a tremendous gift , some of it a little theatrical but we all loved him very much and he was a great popular success . ’ |
| 24 | Weather permitting , though , there is to be a full-scale balloon launch with hot air — some of it no doubt coming from a ‘ Balloon debate ’ and a ‘ Question time ’ session . |
| 25 | We 're all as the good Lord made us and some of us a sight worse . |
| 26 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 27 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
| 28 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |
| 29 | What 's wrong with us the way we are ? |
| 30 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |