Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 2 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 3 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 4 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 5 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 6 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 7 | In a very different sense London Docklands was an invented place , a series of disparate communities which were united by the imperatives of a specific form of development chosen for them by an imposed Urban Development Corporation ( chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | The sellers owned 200,000 gallons of white spirit stored for them by an independent person , X , in his tanks . |
| 9 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 10 | And , of course , people who do help by sponsoring these items could even choose to have a rare creature named after them in an unusual form of immortality . |
| 11 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 12 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 13 | provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis . |
| 14 | In it 's short life , the Open University has seen tens of thousands of graduates , and literally millions of students … nearly all of them without an academic background . |
| 15 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 16 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 17 | Could we have a typical performance from either of them in an unlikely setting : for example , Howerd making his maiden speech in the House of Commons or delivering a lecture to students on English lit , or Hill interviewing Germaine Greer or giving a sermon . |
| 18 | He told her : ‘ It 's hard to think of you in an attractive way — you 're my friend 's wife . ’ |
| 19 | You will sometimes find that if your employer acts towards you in an unsatisfactory way , he is in breach of his implied duty of mutual trust and confidence . |
| 20 | He stirred and woke and stretched out his hand towards her in an enquiring and generous fashion . |
| 21 | Blanche squinted thoughtfully , fixing the man in front of her with an inquisitive stare . |
| 22 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 23 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 24 | She was roused from this disturbing fantasy by the arrival on the table in front of her of an Italian youth who was trying to escape the clutches of two boisterous female companions . |
| 25 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 26 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 27 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 28 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 29 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 30 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |