Example sentences of "[pers pn] with [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let me leave you with a few wise words . |
| 2 | So with summer holiday time coming up we thought we 'd help the late planners among you with a few ideas on great areas to go walking . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 4 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 5 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 6 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 7 | Thus the author of A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens , probably Richard Overton , reminded the House of Commons in 1646 that " wee are your Principalls , and you our Agents- … wee possessed you with the same Power that was in our selves … |
| 8 | A tablespoon of bran , which might provide you with the same amount of fibre , is not nearly so nutritious . |
| 9 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour . |
| 11 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 12 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’ |
| 14 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 15 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 16 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 17 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 18 | She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’ |
| 19 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 20 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 21 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 22 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 23 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 24 | If the imagination-free hacks at Today need any more decent ideas , I 'd be happy to supply them with a few more of our back numbers at a very reasonable rate . |
| 25 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 26 | Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style . |
| 27 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 28 | At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by . |
| 29 | Fill them with the same flowers using the colours of the china . |
| 30 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |