Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet , I bet the plain poor people wanting them for Christmas would n't bother to send them , well she kept them for over Christmas . |
| 2 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 3 | He had his own gun and he killed four men and two women , shot people for looking at him , never mind saying anything , shot them like on television , with no blood , no noise and no justice . |
| 4 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 5 | Is that one they 've told you about at school ? |
| 6 | What are you like at night ? |
| 7 | ‘ No matter , it will serve as a useful antidote to what they will try and inculcate you with at school , that 's its chief virtue . |
| 8 | And she in of course in turn , she could get tore into the women if they missed anything , see . |
| 9 | If the extra move brings you to within charge range of an enemy unit then you may declare a charge and attack it in your movement phase if you wish . |
| 10 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |
| 11 | To ensure that Members of Parliament and Parliament as a whole can carry out their functions effectively , they have certain privileges to safeguard them from outside interference . |
| 12 | You 've got sixteen days to do them in in theory . |
| 13 | But the place he took me to after lunch , the Colegio Ponce de Leon , where I was supposed to have rooms , was a rather stark student hostel , and my little room was very small , with just a narrow bed , a table and a chair . |
| 14 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 15 | The effect was dramatic , paralysing French artillery support and enabling the Germans to make deep advances that brought them to within striking distance of Verdun itself . |
| 16 | Or whether you scared him after to death ! |
| 17 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 18 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 19 | He was shifting in her mind suddenly , stepping out of the shadows she had so forcibly pushed him into in self-defence , and she realised her attraction to him was more than just physical . |
| 20 | That would keep him in in timber do you see , keep him going . |
| 21 | His struggles had brought him to within reach of Chalon 's powerful hindquarters , and Isabel did n't hesitate . |
| 22 | No I do n't really know him outside of work to be honest |
| 23 | I 've seen him outside of football a couple of times — but it just shows there are no friends in the game . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it better to tackle him outside of business hours . |
| 25 | So I can take it as as gospel this morning that some of these franchises will be fifteen years , how many might be fifteen years , might they all be fifteen years ? |
| 26 | Yeah if you can write erm do n't think of it as as homework you might like to writ it in book or something . |
| 27 | What is she/he like in bed ? |
| 28 | What was it like at home when the youngest child started school . |
| 29 | Yes but what 's it like at home ? |
| 30 | ‘ What 's it like at Brigade H.Q ? ’ |