Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August . |
| 2 | " Why do we let them stay in that warren ? " cried Silver . |
| 3 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 4 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 5 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 6 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 7 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 8 | I asked in some surprise . |
| 9 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 10 | ‘ Those trees were superb ; there was drama in each figure I was going to say , but I mean in each tree … . |
| 11 | I mean in any case ten minutes . |
| 12 | Erm I mean in another year er hopefully it comes out of the profit margin . |
| 13 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 14 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 15 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 16 | You 'd be surprised how many new friends I make in that way . |
| 17 | Many of the points that I make in this speech have already been covered by John , but they are important and deserve to be repeated . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're the only one I trust in this outfit . |
| 19 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 20 | I got in this chemist in the shops there did n't I ? |
| 21 | I found in that chemist shop when I was looking there er , refill Nutrene . |
| 22 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 23 | I ca n't get up out me bed any more without somebody helping me , so I sleep in that chair . |
| 24 | That I sleep in that chair ? |
| 25 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 26 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 27 | I think what I say in that book may be sensitive , so I keep it always on my body , and in Finnish . |
| 28 | Indeed , for the sake of clarity , and for the avoidance of any doubt , I propose in any event to insert an exception to cover the section 39 notice , and I will hear counsel as to the appropriate wording . |
| 29 | Earlier this year I reported in this column the Institute 's decision to terminate its contract with the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and to form its own Secretariat . |
| 30 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |