Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London |
| 2 | All afternoon Fiona kept me close by her side , looking around for me any time I fell a step behind . |
| 3 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 4 | When Mr. Gosling picked the apples for me last month he left a few on the top branches he could n't reach , and they 're rather a temptation to boys , I expect . |
| 5 | He was also very rude about my new hairstyle I 'll have you know Jane , but this guy |
| 6 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 7 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 8 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 9 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 10 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 11 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 12 | During my own life I have experienced many occasions when debt burdens have dominated my thoughts . |
| 13 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 14 | ‘ During my last pregnancy my husband and I went through a really tough time — in fact it has not ended yet and we are undecided as to whether we are going to separate or not . |
| 15 | When I walk through my front door I hear the TV playing loud . |
| 16 | ‘ I met him through my younger brother who played football with him . |
| 17 | This was only a week after the start of what was almost a revolutionary service — the cost : 1d for my eldest sister who was fourteen and half price or ½d for my other sister and myself . |
| 18 | ‘ I wan na sing a song for my poor wife who 's — who 's gone off her head . ’ |
| 19 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 20 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 21 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 22 | For if I should wish to love you and no other except for my wedded husband I shall not fail to tell you . " ) |
| 23 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 24 | It was the most inspiring experience of my life and the visit provided food for my hungry spirit which by then was slowly dying from malnutrition . |
| 25 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 26 | And then for my main course I tend to choose |
| 27 | For my next example I will go back to Sri Lanka for a case which exhibits with particular clarity the general principle that equality of status calls for direct equivalence in reciprocal behaviour . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 30 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |