Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She had no wish for Doreen to accompany them during this rare opportunity to be alone with Silas ; then she sighed with relief as his next words rang like bells in her ears . |
2 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
3 | Apart from one draper and one mercer all were clothiers , some of them worth several hundreds , and one , Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ranked among the richest men in the land with no less than £3,200 . |
4 | Now originally the trip was going to take them through many middle eastern countries including Jordan and Israel , er have you had to change your plans at all Andrew , it sounds as though that might not be the ideal place to be going at the moment ? |
5 | UHA and University House have suffered two sad losses during the year with the deaths of Arthur Butterworth , who was Warden 1968–81 , and Alice Godsell , a faithful supporter to many since her student days of the early 1920s , and UHA wishes to commemorate them through some lasting gifts in House . |
6 | IAN LUCAS went along to guide them through those tricky questions . |
7 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
8 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
9 | It is further acknowledged that each of the parties shall indemnify me for all reasonable costs of defending such actions and proceedings . |
10 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
11 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
12 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
13 | The ground itself is not as harsh as the words I felt beneath me for that one curious moment at the Treasury . |
14 | No , I just was gon na go out and commiserate with you all for putting up with me for that long , well with you lot I do n't know |
15 | Thank you for taking me for that delectable breath of fresh air — it 's something I 'll always remember . ’ |
16 | Not getting me for any extra hours that 's a certain fact |
17 | It was not my instinct to go , but the group — including my wife who was with me for those two days — set the example and I grudgingly , guardedly accompanied them . |
18 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
19 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
20 | I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow . |
21 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
22 | Because the Kurecolor KC-400 Brush Pen range is easily portable — all 60 pens fit into a compact work station with a rest that doubles as a carrying handle — I took it with me for some outdoor sketching . |
23 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
24 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
25 | ‘ Please do n't portray me as some flashy Vegas gambler who 's plopping into the White House in Italian suits and expensive watches , ’ Mr Rogich told a reporter from The New York Times from his car phone . |
26 | ‘ Why did n't you tell them about that ghastly couple — Grimwood and Steve ? |
27 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
28 | And of committee and of sorry a special erm meeting between the four officers that produced minutes to all part and this was one of them about this particular issue , which just just is just to record that Westbourne 's Parish Council 's er views were taken into account . |
29 | Tell them about these two . |
30 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |