Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away |
| 2 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 3 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 4 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 5 | Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying . |
| 6 | Now advertising strikes me as an area that I I feel I can put make some input into . |
| 7 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 8 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 9 | In the case of music examinations there are doubtless some teachers who keep their pupils back and refuse to enter them for an examination unless they are virtually certain that they will succeed . |
| 10 | I as an amendment as I am involved in the attendance allowance . |
| 11 | Her hands slid up around his neck and she was kissing him back , her tongue meeting his with an intensity that was shocking . |
| 12 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 13 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 14 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 15 | For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’ |
| 16 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 17 | Research says that Mike Todd was the man who awakened you as an actress and as a woman . |
| 18 | ‘ Clients come to you with an objective and the solicitor 's contribution is to help to achieve this objective within the legal framework . |
| 19 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 20 | And you know what 's happened I mean there 's a lot of trickery involved where they get you into an account that if you read the small print it says Ju rates guaranteed until June ninety three and as soon as June ninety three , and as soon as June ninety three comes around , your , your seven percent becomes five percent . |
| 21 | They 'd have put you in an asylum and featured your aggressive , dangerous-looking profile in a textbook for the medical profession . |
| 22 | ‘ All right , but I was merely pointing out that I would hardly liken you to an animal or bird from New Zealand when I 'm Australian . ’ |
| 23 | It claims to ‘ lead you to an end that was no part of your intention ’ . |
| 24 | He watched me with an anxiety and a pity so powerful I walked away . |
| 25 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 26 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 27 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 28 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 29 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 30 | Robin Haire and Adrian Semple made sure of knocking off the remaining runs , leaving them with an over and a half to spare . |