Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war public appeals had raised sufficient money to keep Youth Allyah afloat , but , when it became clear that large numbers of children would not soon be leaving for Palestine , the question arose as to who would care for them during their prolonged stay in Britain . |
| 2 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |
| 3 | I am retracing the footsteps of the lost expedition , tracking them through their abandoned log from one wrong compass bearing to the next . |
| 4 | And to help them through their carbon-copy situation , they are also studying ways in which they can emulate our enterprise challenge . |
| 5 | On the other hand , requiring the child to reproduce phrases and sentences may lead to a lower level of performance as the child seeks to make sense of the adult constructions and in doing so reinterprets them through her own emerging system of grammatical rules . |
| 6 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 7 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |
| 8 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 9 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |
| 10 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 11 | Do not ask me for its modern systematic name ! |
| 12 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 13 | There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist . |
| 14 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 15 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 16 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 17 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 19 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 20 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 21 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 22 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 23 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 24 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 25 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 26 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They 'll thank me for it one day : pelvic control is useful when you 're having a baby . ’ |
| 28 | Do you a lot of good , you 'll thank me for it one day . |
| 29 | Each division is led by a Head of Services who is responsible to me as their Chief Officer . |
| 30 | I 'd like you to stand with me as my best man . |