Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 2 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 3 | Well er I I said to young er what 's his name ? |
| 4 | But I I go on sorry Paul |
| 5 | Now I had a companion to share everything with , someone I knew of old and with whom there were no constraints , and seven years ' news to keep the conversation flowing . |
| 6 | The revival of psychoanalytic criticism , usually in its Lacanian version , has been a disconcerting surprise to someone who came to intellectual maturity in the 1950s , when Freud seemed a figure of increasing remoteness . |
| 7 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 8 | It is surprising , and possibly inappropriate , that a leading article on a middle ear condition should be written by someone who specialises in general practice , rather than by an otologist , and by someone who may be less well acquainted with the problems of long waiting times in Britain than a British specialist . |
| 9 | I personally use a .013-.056 gauge on all the acoustics and all the electrics with the exception of the Firebird , which I use for regular flatpicking in standard Spanish tuning , and that one has much lighter strings on it — an .009 set but with an .011 on the top E. ’ |
| 10 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 11 | My first rod is used to cast to within a yard or two of a predetermined spot ; a spot which I know from past experience is a productive one . |
| 12 | and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret . |
| 13 | But I soon learnt how to bake little cakes made of corn , which I ate with warm milk . |
| 14 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 15 | That is the right way forward for this country , the European Community and the wider Europe which I hope in due course will join the Community . |
| 16 | I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often . |
| 17 | An American film was showing which I recognized as Double Indemnity . |
| 18 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 19 | For me they have miniaturized an array of defensive and offensive armaments , which I carry in disguised form here and there on my clothes , accessories and body . |
| 20 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 21 | To say that an object which I see with perfect indifference makes an impression upon my mind is not , as I apprehend , good English … |
| 22 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 23 | Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 . |
| 24 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
| 25 | One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April . |
| 26 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 27 | But the writer in the Morning Chronicle , although a punctilious recorder , only alludes in his final sentence to the worst feature of such dwellings : ‘ And yet you fancy you could put up with everything but the close earthy smell , which you endeavour in vain to escape by breathing short and quickly . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 29 | Pointing to gaps in our knowledge , which itself comes from adequate understanding of sociological theory , is one of the most important parts of social research and brings out clearly the importance of the research worker having a good background of theory . |
| 30 | Apart from this pivotal incident , which itself stands in awkward relationship to the rest of the book , the bare bones of the story are unexceptional . |