Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 2 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 3 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 4 | Still , it was them or a book . |
| 5 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 6 | cover your face/nose with warm hands ( yours or a friend 's ) |
| 7 | Then erm names , babies I if a baby 's christened Timothy er it gets called Timmy or Nicholas gets called Nicky , which sort of ties in with the biscuits being called bickie and horsie and doggie and all this sort of ee things that you say to babies . |
| 8 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 9 | A small painting of his provided a moment of calm reflection among those of his more raucous colleagues in Alana Heiss ' ‘ Slow Painting ’ show last summer at P.S.I . |
| 10 | If Karr was right , Herrick would have kept copies of all his jobs-as a precaution . |
| 11 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 12 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 13 | You have yours as a proprietor , but I have mine too . |
| 14 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 15 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 16 | It does seem likely to me that a North-South divide will be greatly deepened ; that the still weak by nonetheless unmistakeable pressures towards democratisation in some of the Arab societies will be lost , not least because the war and the allies will put such a premium on harsh social and political controls in what many will see as potentially revolutionary situations . |
| 17 | It 's astonishing to me that a boy whose father and grandfather have both been soldiers before him should have such a poorly developed sense of loyalty arid duty . " |
| 18 | She added : ‘ The Garda authorities inform me that a quantity of spent ammunition rounds was recovered in the course of the search , and that these are currently undergoing forensic examination . |
| 19 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 20 | On the way , I remember Aunt Rachel telling me that a station was Rugby , which meant that we were then right in the centre of England , whilst a bit later on , I was told to look out to see the Welsh mountains . |
| 21 | It becomes a great pleasure to read this passage , another justification of those who assured me that A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland remains one of the fundamental works in the literature of travel . |
| 22 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not seriously going to tell me that a relationship like that just ends , when the guy still meets your mother every few weeks or so ? ’ |
| 24 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 25 | On another occasion David Bellamy said to me ‘ You ca n't tell me that a canoe would not disturb an otter ’ . |
| 26 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 27 | However Dave Crockford tells me that a trend is becoming apparent ! |
| 28 | In the first , Malone v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ( No 2 ) [ 1979 ] 2 All ER 620 , which concerned the use to which recordings of telephone conversations made with the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Office , Megarry V-C said " it seems to me that a person who utters confidential information must accept the risk of any unknown overhearing that is inherent in the circumstances of the communication " . |
| 29 | It astonished me that a man who had kept his head under the most severe stresses and strains should lose both nerve and judgement in this way . |
| 30 | IT does n't surprise me that a survey showed very few Britons would give up their pet for £1m . |