Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am surprised by what he says ; if he cares to write to me or to the Secretary of State for Education and Science I will certainly have the matter looked into . |
| 2 | Do n't let yourself sink so low again — come and talk to me or to the doctor . |
| 3 | The initiative does not rest with me or with the Home Office . |
| 4 | You mean therapeutic for me or for the reader ? |
| 5 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 6 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 7 | On the question of trunk roads and the general capacity of the road system around York , the panel will see that we have actually presented some detailed evidence prepared by and I and for the information for the panel on Tuesday , I understand that all that information is agreed with the County Surveyor as well . |
| 8 | So when I see it cos I thought I have Alice and them , so I and in the room and I fridge . |
| 9 | The total growth in our Gold 90 balances is well in excess of the goal we set ourselves and across the whole of the UK we achieved almost 50 per cent of our 1992/3 target by the middle of February . |
| 10 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 11 | Now we had no doubt about the inclusion of Charles Darwin 's centenary in this series at this point ; certainly one of the half dozen most influential figures of the modern world , in reshaping our perceptions of ourselves and of the rest of the world . |
| 12 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 13 | If the opponent 's attack is a face punch , then hit his extended arm with your forearm , glancing your punch over the top of his and into the target . |
| 14 | ‘ That is why we must succeed , not just for ourselves but for the Lord Cardinal . |
| 15 | We paid her my first big visit in Brooklyn , she had n't met me except on the phone . |
| 16 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 17 | And in fact if you do n't do that and you you get face to face like this with me and say well oh wait a minute you did n't tell me that on the phone last er or otherwise I would n't have bothered to see you . |
| 18 | Sir Reginald told me that on the night before U Saw went to London in the hopes of getting a promise of some kind of independence for Burma from Winston Churchill in return for full co-operation in the war , he had warned U Saw that the hopes of success were very slender . |
| 19 | I remember you telling me that on the night of the fire he was at the pub with a group of friends . ’ |
| 20 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |
| 21 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 22 | Armanjani reported to me that at the height of his powers our man sometimes accompanied a two hour programme of film trailers spliced together . |
| 23 | In other words , watching the film persuaded me that despite the intricacy of the life-producing process , it is not wrong to think of helping it along in certain ways . |
| 24 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 25 | Now , in the confines of The Pub From Hell , Merton , a surprisingly serious chap off-screen who tells me that in the past he 's not been wild about interviews , comes into his own . |
| 26 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 27 | Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page . |
| 28 | And it did seem to me that in the light of , erm , of the single regeneration budget , on the light of the need to be developing a regeneration strategy for Shropshire , perhaps the role of the County Council in this affair should actually be , er , as , as the local government for the county , should be to look at preparing a , a regeneration strategy for the whole county , at which the work that we do to economic development is one of the pillars of support as is the work that the districts do is another pillar of support , as is the work of the R D C and the objective five programme , and all the various other bodies that are involved in , in economic development and similar activities in . |
| 29 | ‘ You could 've told me that inside the room , not drag me out here , ’ Duncan replied , irritated by the policeman 's need for secrecy . |
| 30 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |