Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she 's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury , and she wants Hayley to go back . |
| 3 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 4 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 5 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 6 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 7 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 8 | They laugh scornfully when they find my Fabulous Thighs in Thirty Days book : ‘ Oh , how pathetic — next you 'll be getting plastic surgery … ’ |
| 9 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 10 | ‘ Please do not discuss my private affairs in public . ’ |
| 11 | They were my greatest friends in Benedict 's , and had rooms on either side of mine . |
| 12 | ‘ My dear brethren in Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 13 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 14 | I 'm going back to my old employers in London , though . ’ |
| 15 | Well , he was my old comrade-in-arms in the good old days of the prewar popular front . |
| 16 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 17 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 18 | So that , I think , is one of my favourite moments in Adam Bede . |
| 19 | I think my one of my favourite passages in Adam Bede might be the description near the beginning of the novel of the methodist preacher , Diner , addressing a meeting of villagers and instead of giving you the entire speech , word for word , George Eliot gives you a little bit of what she said and then describes the manner in which she said it , and the manner in which it was actually received . |
| 20 | I reached one of my favourite pubs in Barnes at nine o'clock . |
| 21 | Gem of the district , and one of my favourite places in the world , is Kramer 's Bookstore and Afterwords Café , with a wonderful array of literature , political and other books . |
| 22 | I am perhaps out of line with some of my hon. Friends in that I quite enjoyed the speech made by the Secretary of State for the Environment , who opened the debate for the Government . |
| 23 | Sergeant Moustaine punched me in the face , stuffed my shitty underpants in my mouth and ordered me to run around the parade ground holding my kitbag above my head . |
| 24 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 25 | I have only seen one such case in my 10 years in general practice … |
| 26 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 27 | The orthodoxies honoured by my headmasterly predecessors in Banbury were no longer universally accepted . |
| 28 | My own personal statement was to refrain from the practice and to convey my anti feelings in print whenever possible ( see my book Modern Rock and Ice Climbing , chapter 7 — Ethics ) . |
| 29 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 30 | Also , some cheeky oik ( ca n't remember his name ) asked me why I never put any of my personal scores in this section . |