Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war public appeals had raised sufficient money to keep Youth Allyah afloat , but , when it became clear that large numbers of children would not soon be leaving for Palestine , the question arose as to who would care for them during their prolonged stay in Britain . |
| 2 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |
| 3 | I am retracing the footsteps of the lost expedition , tracking them through their abandoned log from one wrong compass bearing to the next . |
| 4 | And to help them through their carbon-copy situation , they are also studying ways in which they can emulate our enterprise challenge . |
| 5 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |
| 6 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 7 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 8 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 9 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 10 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 11 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 12 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 13 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 14 | Each division is led by a Head of Services who is responsible to me as their Chief Officer . |
| 15 | I 'd like you to stand with me as my best man . |
| 16 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 17 | I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again . |
| 18 | It is my great pleasure to be here this morning to express my sincere gratitude to you , my fellow members , for electing me as your National President for 1993/94 . |
| 19 | Even if he 'd already identified me as his deadly rival , at that point it did n't have much relevance . ’ |
| 20 | Two things may protect us : first , the Lord Cardinal treats me as his favourite nephew and that will afford us some protection ; secondly , our investigations safeguard us . |
| 21 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 22 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 23 | Unwanted and unloved by her parents , Cassie felt unable to tell them about her hated uncle 's secret visits |
| 24 | They reassured Pamela that they did trust her , but added that they hoped she would feel more able to be open with them about her social life . |
| 25 | He had written telling them about his recent marriage to Rachel in Sydney , but he had n't given any address or any details of the wedding . |
| 26 | Our friend Nigel had anonymously contacted the company who had made the fuss about the takeover , telling them about his little campaign and inviting them to offer their financial support . ’ |
| 27 | Going to him , she wound her arms into his smoking-jacket and snaked them about his naked body . |
| 28 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 29 | Instead of seeing money — or love , time , success or joy — as in short supply , we will come to see them as our natural birthright , letting them flow through our lives with great ease . |
| 30 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |