Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He 's too dear to me for me to pretend a love I do n't feel . "
2 It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour .
3 Use then , as you roughly plan your book , some locality which for you evokes a strong mood .
4 We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship .
5 Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th .
6 The three great grain stations were La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Plaine-Saint-Denis , and Saint Ouen-les-Docks , which between them received a quarter of all the grain and a fifth of all the flour brought into Paris by train .
7 Because complementary medicine is a highly diverse category , the research will focus on and compare three complementary therapies — homeopaths , chiropractors and reflexologists — which between them illustrate a good selection of the issues faced by complementary practitioners and of the different ways in which these issues have been dealt with .
8 And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ?
9 And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ?
10 Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ .
11 BELVILLE : I have often observed in married folks that the lady soon grows careless in her dress , which to me shows a slight to her husband that she had not to her lover .
12 It was the feeling that nobody around me gave a toss whether or not I got into the Legion , nobody cared what happened to me , or whether or not I succeeded .
13 And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross .
14 The Regent diamond of 410 carats recovered from Golconda in 1701 was soon acquired by Governor Pitt , grandfather and great-grandfather of men who between them despoiled a great part of the French empire .
15 It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years .
16 None of them breathed a word .
17 None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive .
18 That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice .
19 It was perhaps ironic too , that six more sections were cut at Great Casterton , and none of them produced a scrap of pottery from the rampart later than the early second century .
20 None of the men was black , none of them stood six-foot-four in bare feet , and none of them wore a pipe in his mouth .
21 None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power .
22 This was the ‘ Wallflower Waltz ’ number — in which the girls in the show , led by Maggie Smith who sang wistfully about none of them having a dancing partner , while the men on stage waltzed with sheets of chiffon floating down from the flies .
23 None of them commands a regular place in the team .
24 None of them has a sore throat .
25 It makes a good spawning medium , my fish spawned this spring and none of them lost a single scale .
26 I mean , none of us get a hard-on when it comes on .
27 None of us has a monopoly of moral insight and we have no choice but to work together somehow .
28 About the earliest years , when we are most impressionable , none of us has a conscious memory .
29 None of us has a drug habit or drinks heavily .
30 And so that there will be a a broad spectrum of people who with us confess a common faith , serve a common Lord and proclaim about our gospel serving within this number of people in Wales and therefore I 'm glad to bring you greetings for that reason .
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