Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To allow me to see that woman in the land . |
| 2 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 4 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 5 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 6 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
| 7 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 8 | For the more experienced I commend Still Life in Oils by Paul Millichip ( John Hemson Associates ) and the various demonstration films by Harley Crossley on palette knife techniques ( Rainbow Art Images ) . |
| 9 | Ye yes it it does , and I think I made this point in erm in my evidence that it lies at the extreme erm southeastern corner of the paddock erm and if if , This is making an assumption . |
| 10 | Erm can I throw another spanner in the works er sir . |
| 11 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 13 | I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ . |
| 14 | Embarrassed at my ineptitude in the situation , I feigned great interest in a rack of clothes at the back of the shop . |
| 15 | I make this protest in a spirit of self-respect and with the conviction that the American public does not demand filthy pictures , but clean entertainment and educational features . |
| 16 | As a matter of fact , there was about , I got four month in this one particular shop and there became sixteen men , in this shop , that was working for me and er er we , I instituted a bonus scheme . |
| 17 | They packed their bags , sold the house and left me : I got that news in prison . |
| 18 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 19 | Right , I , I 'm quite a small building , erm , I got scary stuff in me . |
| 20 | As this was my hundredth phone call , I got some publicity in the local press and the dog was found . |
| 21 | No , I got some green in here . |
| 22 | in yo , I got another message in the office , that 's right . |
| 23 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 24 | When Eberhard Bethge produced Bonhoeffer 's volumes of papers , lectures and letters in a series of Collected Works in German , Hartwell saw to it that I reviewed each volume in The Bridge as soon as it arrived . |
| 25 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 26 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 27 | I found this book in your drawer Junie . |
| 28 | I found this book in your drawer . |
| 29 | Although I did not conduct field research in Nigeria , I visited that country in 1975 , 1978 and 1981 . |
| 30 | My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master 's Lodge of his college . |