Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 2 | The course takes them through some of Herefordshire 's most beautiful countryside . |
| 3 | Cos they go out to work at half past eight and you hear them between half past seven and half past eight |
| 4 | Why not list your own holiday requirements and then tick them off one by one as you discover for yourself what Ten Bel has to offer . |
| 5 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 6 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 7 | It 's a bit like Alien ex and it kills them off one by one . |
| 8 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 9 | She wore a stiff black silk dress , a lace cap and an expression of disapproval — " I hope they wo n't take me for one of your actress friends , " she boomed . |
| 10 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 11 | My rich , dark Trappist practically knocked me for six at lunchtime , while a deep red cherry beer , Kriek , tasted like alcoholic cough mixture . |
| 12 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 13 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 14 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 15 | Do join Kirsty , Lloyd , Kathleen Long and me for more of the same but different at five to one tomorrow . |
| 16 | Erm , on the grounds that the substance he was dealing with was complicated , and I think , erm , colleague is right to reprove me for some of the language . |
| 17 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 19 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 20 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |
| 21 | There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think . |
| 22 | This abberation apart , Chuff Chuff offered one of the best days out of the summer — little surprise to those who already know them as one of the Midlands ' most reliable and imaginative club promoters . |
| 23 | As well as being one of the rarest breeds in the world , there are those who 've labelled them as one of the ugliest . |
| 24 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 25 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |
| 26 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 27 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 28 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 29 | Human rights church groups and surviving inmates accused police of carrying out deliberate and systematic executions , blaming them for most of the deaths ( which they put at between 200 and 400 , as against an official toll of 111 inmates killed and 35 inmates and 22 police officers wounded ) . |
| 30 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |