Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short answer to counsel 's submission , founded on freedom of speech , is simply that that right , under our law , must be exercised subject to the law of defamation which affords everyone protection against injury to reputation by untrue imputation . |
| 2 | They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit . |
| 3 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 4 | She left them side by side on the sofa , intent on a cartoon , and hurried out to the garden . |
| 5 | Fold each side of the rectangle into four or five pleats , and pin them side by side along the top edge of the board so that each pleat falls into a soft fold across the swag , forming a gentle curve ( fig. 46 ) . |
| 6 | He said it would change my hair from red to black ! |
| 7 | Frejji trundled off to get suited up for the short jump to her shuttle , while I walked very slowly to my cabin in search of medication . |
| 8 | That was my kind of deal in front of my kind of people . |
| 9 | Tip just was n't my kind of dog at all . |
| 10 | To do my kind of job on TV you have to be born with an insatiable curiosity about what really makes people tick . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ The reason I escaped again was to highlight my case as part of my campaign to prove that there has been a miscarriage of justice . ’ |
| 12 | If I had my case at home without a doctor . |
| 13 | That 's my response on behalf of the C E C. |
| 14 | I also had most of my experience with chyluria in London . |
| 15 | In all my experience of homicide in the courts … ’ |
| 16 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 17 | This letter is primarily to ask you to note my change of address to Rossendale , Lancs , with immediate effect . |
| 18 | However , my enthusiasm for authenticism in general and Norrington 's performances in particular should not lead readers to assume that the moment his latest CD goes in the tray I 'm all set to start spraying stars around like confetti . |
| 19 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 20 | I hope to be in residence by the end of December in readiness for my installation as bishop on Monday , 18th January , at mid-day in St Mary 's Cathedral . |
| 21 | ‘ Your mum 's asked my mum to dinner on the sixth , ’ said Sam , ‘ so we 'll do it then , when we know where they all are . ’ |
| 22 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want me to oxygenate it for you ? in he asked , ‘ I know what I 'm doing , I 've kept fish for ten years.in He waited for my look of amazement at his expertise . |
| 24 | Your lady wife told my sister at table of your desire for a truce with Famagusta , your wish to feed the pigs and convince them of their isolation . |
| 25 | I looked round at the picture of Bruce Lee , the travel poster of Malaysia my dad gave me , my certificate of merit for Grade Two Saxophone , my 320 computer discs , my colour picture of an iguana and the tattered remains of a portable snooker table we got when I was twelve . |
| 26 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 27 | Oh but this is n't my bit of cheese in |
| 28 | The barman took my watch in payment by the way . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You were one of several people who were probably going to be let go on my recommendation as part of a rationalisation programme , but the manner in which I caused it to happen … |
| 30 | And anyway , my search for knowledge about human behavior — surely it ca n't be dangerous ? |