Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ McDunn says , looking at his notebook , ‘ we 've found people who think they remember seeing you in the Broughton Arms Hotel on the night of Sunday the twenty-fifth of October , when Sir Rufus was murdered . ’ |
| 2 | Seeing it on the noticeboard at the workhouse made me think … but I ca n't be sure any more . |
| 3 | Then , by pure chance — but seeing it as an act of providence — she had heard Lin Foh call down for an early supper , for him and his CI5 guardian . |
| 4 | ‘ Seeing it from the car did n't do it justice , ’ Nicolo said . |
| 5 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 6 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 7 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 8 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 9 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 10 | Whether it was McColgan or Meyer , I was fully prepared so I could go faster than them in the closing stages . ’ |
| 11 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 12 | There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ? |
| 13 | Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time . |
| 14 | Now so I on the |
| 15 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 16 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 17 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 18 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 19 | And so you as a sort of er volunteer army did n't have a lot of |
| 20 | ‘ So you in the big money now , Sean ? ’ |
| 21 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 22 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 23 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 24 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 25 | It 's a terrible thing actually , because you always pretty much er once they work , once they to the data and people still worry about it , why have rather than some other . |
| 26 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 27 | She was stronger than him in every respect save the purely physical . |
| 28 | There are worse men than him in the world ! ’ |
| 29 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 30 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |