Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the compensatory remedy available ‘ together with ’ the restitutionary remedy , could be obtained against an accomplice who was neither a party to the transaction nor a person to whom money or property of the investor had been transferred is equally doubtful . |
| 2 | He thought that they would stay there , the track giving them visibility and line of fire . |
| 3 | But Kathy Page confects a rescue package for her unlikely heroes , giving them money and freedom in the spirit of all the best fairy-tale endings . |
| 4 | It really , we need to encourage the trade that Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and if it , one of the former speakers said , we need to give them aid and ascent for people who can , erm , show them what to do . |
| 5 | She also fetched me tea and refreshment from one of the marquees . |
| 6 | To get in I and the friend who is taking me hammer and hammer on the door , shout over and over again in Bengali ‘ It 's us , it 's us , let us in ’ . |
| 7 | A series of brief telephone calls put me in touch with the keeper of the Chalice Well at Glastonbury who was able to give me chapter and verse on the well cover . |
| 8 | I open my briefcase and sort through various , what ? — books and papers by colleagues , say — looking for my file of letters . |
| 9 | This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics . |
| 10 | Another side of the coin : when Don Bennett lavished high praise on my finding and training of pathfinders in the final phase of the war . |
| 11 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 12 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 13 | From my days as a weekly newspaper reporter , my enthusiasm and affection for journalism have never lessened . |
| 14 | I was telling my mum and dad about that , |
| 15 | I I told my mum and dad about that on Sunday , that she 's got a leg waxing machine . |
| 16 | I want to pass all my exams , I want my mum and dad to be proud of me . |
| 17 | And he goes , I mean he went to see my mum and dad before Christmas and they did n't recognise him ! |
| 18 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 19 | I had a scarf round my neck and stuff round my shoulders . |
| 20 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 21 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 22 | ‘ But I am neither so foolish , nor so quixotic — nor , I may add , is my mind and resolution of so high an order ! — as to deprive myself entirely of the opportunity to better my own lot . |
| 23 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 24 | I sit for an hour , alone at a table with only one drink of scathing hard whiskey , which does not fall lightly upon my throat , but burns my mouth and neck with the sting of memory . |
| 25 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 26 | Take my script and pencil for now . ‘ |
| 27 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 28 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 29 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 30 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |