Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 2 | You will actually hold a policy review with your client , I E , you 're going to see them each year at least , but the policy reviews as regards the company are held to make sure there 's enough growth in the client 's funds to sustain all the charges . |
| 3 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 4 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 5 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 6 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 7 | You were blazingly angry with me that day at the house . ’ |
| 8 | I had a hand-tooled Mexican handbag with me that day in court . |
| 9 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 10 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 11 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 12 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 13 | Miss O'Keeffe 's work suggests to me that kind of passionate mysticism that clouds the seeing eye with visions false to it , like some sweet drug . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you acting , Sarella , when you give me that look of — whatever it is ? ’ |
| 15 | Er , you 're buying me that race for my birthday . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 17 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 18 | I said , anyhow , you do n't attract me that way in the least . |
| 19 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 20 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't give me that stuff about children then . |
| 22 | It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered . |
| 23 | ‘ Hand me that leash from the back seat , Betty . ’ |
| 24 | It seems to me that art of all kinds emerges out of deep human needs , needs that can not be met anywhere else . |
| 25 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 26 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 27 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |
| 28 | ‘ You gave me that line about my mind ten years ago , ’ Emma said . |
| 29 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 30 | New York cabbies are notorious for complaining but Danny , an old friend , who always seems to be around when I am ready to leave The Summit Hotel , assures me that business in one of the world 's busiest cities is worse than he had known it in more than 20 years . |