Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's well , ’ he said seriously , ‘ that you should have a token about you that will get you in to me or the prince at need , and stand you in good stead if ever you should fall foul unawares of any of his officers or mine . |
| 2 | look at me or the guys with the sewing machines I mean |
| 3 | Its just an idea — mail me or the group with any suggestions . |
| 4 | I can excuse them for not knowing all the facts that have now come to light but I can not forgive them or the government for failing to steer the health of the nation . |
| 5 | Conversion at common law may be committed in so many different ways that any comprehensive definition is probably impossible but the connecting thread running through the cases seems to be that the wrong is committed by a dealing with the goods of a person which constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or the assertion of rights inconsistent therewith . |
| 6 | Now it will be obvious to an incisive mind like yours that the existence of the Counterweight Continent poses a deadly threat to our people here — ’ he paused , looking at Rincewind 's open mouth . |
| 7 | Erm , as I 've said before , I have reservations about whether a much increased figure about above the County Council 's er proposal could be accommodated within Ryedale District Council , and I if the figure above that is proposed I would suggest that the extra is accommodated within the new settlement , which I presume the ar argue answer you would have expected from Ryedale , erm Barton Willmore 's figure is based on an assumption that they believe that within Ryedale there is a capacity to increase past building rates , I would refute that , erm the building rates in Southern Ryedale I would suggest were abnormally high , because of the development of Clifton Moor airfield , the North Western part of the Southern Ryedale district , sorry South Western part . |
| 8 | As I say , at Darlington Hall too , many a visiting employee would bring the latest tales of Mr Neighbours 's achievements , so that I and the likes of Mr Graham would have to share the frustrating experience of hearing anecdote after anecdote relating to him . |
| 9 | One of those interesting questions is , for example , the relationship between column H and column I and the way in which those relationships change as we move from one district to another . |
| 10 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 11 | ‘ I and the rest of Northumbria Police will do everything in our power to support PC Hay and his dead colleague 's family . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you telling me that the likes of Rhodes , Parker , Tate , Hirst , Dennett was n't in their different ways fierce ? ’ |
| 13 | Indeed it seems to me that the contribution to date of the voluntary sector to service provision in most sectors has been marginal and peripheral . |
| 14 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 15 | It seems to me that the implication in such an attitude is that the space can be filled — it is possible — and that this is therefore a more simple and perhaps less courageous attitude than that of the anorexic . |
| 16 | We have the possibilities of a postmodern , post-nationalist way of relating , but it seems to me that the prerequisite of that in these islands is the end of the United Kingdom as we have known it . |
| 17 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
| 18 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 19 | My local authority informs me that the proportion of the population will be 12 per cent . |
| 20 | So it seems to me that the existence of death , the fact that organisms do n't live forever , and they certainly are not perfected in terms of personal fitness or survivability , because they get diseases and they die suggests to me that our modern insight into evolution acting on individual genes is , is correct . |
| 21 | She told me that the trial of the young man was to take place the following month and that she was , of course , the only witness . |
| 22 | It seems to me that the advantages of this interpretation of the legislation are twofold . |
| 23 | In the first place , it seems to me that the switching of price labels on the article is in itself an assumption of one of the rights of the owner , whether or not it is accompanied by some other act such as removing the article from the shelf and placing it in a basket or trolley . |
| 24 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 25 | It was n't just Sunil who had convinced me that the rest of the week would be better spent out of town . |
| 26 | All seems to me and I could quote other other references from P P Gs as well to support the point , seems to me that the thrust of government guidance is balance . |
| 27 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 28 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 29 | Let no one tell me that the principles of democratic socialism — of which the NHS is a fine example — are dated . |
| 30 | It is probable that it will be necessary to use the services of a nursing agency at this time because the evidence satisfies me that the tasks of the advertising for , interviewing and then appointing carers on a continuing basis will not be one which the plaintiff can carry out , nor will her sister Clare by then probably married with a family and perhaps living elsewhere , be able to undertake such frequent duties . |