Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually got them off me with baby oil , and almost took my fingers with them . |
| 2 | The Bradley business now had the benefit of more than one representative calling regularly and Carrie played them off one against the other . |
| 3 | fifty pence each , right , erm , and er fill in the slips and either bring them back to us or send them off yourself to Headquarters , shall I put , I 'll put those out for anybody who feel they could sell them , it all , it all helps to raise money for Amnesty and helps to get them erm spend the money on the new prisoner 's . |
| 4 | Another ploy is to buy unfinished or whitewood cabinets and fit them into your space , finishing them off yourself with paint or stain . |
| 5 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 6 | ‘ Did you want me for something in particular ? ’ |
| 7 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 8 | Silvio would bill me for everything from handkerchiefs for your nose to aspirin for your fever . ’ |
| 9 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 10 | Many times they asked me for them by title . |
| 11 | That 's what that diploma was , you know , paid me for it for that five hun , that 's what it was |
| 12 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 13 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 14 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's always struck me as something of a misogynist . |
| 16 | ‘ So you see me as something of a threat , ’ she mused , then shrugged . |
| 17 | I never confided in them about anything except school or college . |
| 18 | Well , first of all we told the people at the earliest opportunity we told the church members what we 've learnt told them about our of the advantages and our enthusiasm and commitment to the process . |
| 19 | A Fish will indeed eat the newly-hatched tadpoles of frogs and newts and regard them as something of a delicacy . |
| 20 | Athelstan studied the jars , dismissing them as nothing but mild cures for ague , aches and pains . |
| 21 | Nuri was one of Egypt 's great landowners and the Khedive considered there was sufficient identity of interest between them for him to be able to use Nuri 's services without fear . |
| 22 | She 'd drawn them for him with eyebrow pencil on yesterday 's newspaper ; he 'd recalled Margaret 's silver propelling pencil and the small notebook she always carried . |
| 23 | Whatever the merits of their looks , enough customers loved them for them to be sold out . |
| 24 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 25 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 26 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 27 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 28 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 29 | So let us settle them for you by Standing Order or Direct Debit . |
| 30 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |