Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker stares at me or rather at a spot on the wall to the left of my head . |
| 2 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 3 | ‘ The current system means I 'm having to tell players now whether I want them or not at the most important point in the season , ’ he reasoned . |
| 4 | In the quality of their enthusiasm there is nothing to choose between them or indeed in the sums of money they are anxious to spend . |
| 5 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 6 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 7 | He also had a real enjoyment of brief , casual relationships , sexual or otherwise ; one of his gay friends remarked to me that even with a passing infatuation , a pick-up , John never tried to impress people with who he was , never used the glamour of his position to dazzle them , but was interested most in finding out who they were , what kind of person . |
| 8 | He told me that out of every 100 contacts a salesman found one prospect , and out of every ten prospects he should , on average , secure one sale . |
| 9 | She told them that apart from a white jumper she never wore the colour at all . |
| 10 | She stamped past me and on down the corridor . |
| 11 | When Lili came to stay the emphasis shifted slightly , away from me and on to the strange woman . |
| 12 | No possibilities here to warm to any feeling of myself as " clever " ; the aching question instead was why the divine hand had seen fit to bestow these talents on me and not on the next child . |
| 13 | The music came clearly out of the room , and flowed round me and out through the colonnade into the light . |
| 14 | Tremayne glanced briefly across at me and back to the road . |
| 15 | In fact it seemed to siphon autonomy and information away from me and back to the people at the top . |
| 16 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 17 | The latter — that is , those living with spouses and with younger people — are most likely to obtain support from those living with them and little from the state . |
| 18 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 19 | Each of the batsmen has had his moments , unfortunately not enough of them and not at the same time to a sufficient degree . |
| 20 | Lord Oliver described the relationship in the following way : ‘ … the purpose for which the auditors ’ certificate is made and published is that of providing those entitled to receive the report with information to enable them to exercise in conjunction [ with others ] those powers which their respective proprietary interests confer on them and not for the purposes of individual speculation with a view to profit . ’ |
| 21 | People who own a property have more freedom to engage in the ‘ all-American leisure style ’ if their house belongs to them and not to a public or private landlord . |
| 22 | But , why did the Dock Commission decide to make it compulsory for the men to be employed by them and not by the firm ? |
| 23 | Boys flowed past them and on into the next gallery . |
| 24 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 25 | With fewer defence contracts around , American aircraft manufacturers such as Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas have been pressing Boeing to redirect subcontracting work towards them and away from the Japanese . |
| 26 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
| 27 | The serjeant rubbed his chin and looked at them and then at the friar , sucking in air noisily through his blackened teeth . |
| 28 | I went after them and in through the huge door . |
| 29 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 30 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |