Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 2 | That does not mean that I or the Labour party agree with those proposals . |
| 3 | A deflection more linearly dependent on the current I than the square law can be achieved by making good use of the fact that the torque also depends on cos θ where θ defines the orientation of the suspended coil as shown in figure 7.2(a) . |
| 4 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine . |
| 7 | Now the prize was his and the serious work was begun . |
| 8 | So it 's a drain on , on the time , not just his but the knock-on effect . |
| 9 | I as the old bill grabs him like . |
| 10 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 11 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |
| 12 | It seems to me that the new settlement if my analysis is correct can only be in one of those two areas , which does n't seem to me to be a very sensible way of proceeding . |
| 13 | It seems to me that the New Testament says very clearly that many people came to Jesus asking for a sign and he pointed to himself . |
| 14 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |
| 15 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 16 | He even informs me that the correct expression , à la Viz , is ‘ the drummer out of Cud ’ . |
| 17 | My mother taught me that the female body is something to be ashamed of . |
| 18 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 19 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : If you can convince me that the hated parson has had no encouragement from you I will offer you the following proposals . |
| 21 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 22 | I was always a sensitive child , but he beat it out of me , taught me that the only way to make your way in life is by standing up and fighting for what you want . |
| 23 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 25 | It seems to me that the only waste is not to recycle it . |
| 26 | But now you tell me that the only reason you went to bed with me was because you thought you could up the stakes to marriage . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 28 | It appeared to me that the only thing he had never mastered was paper hanging . |
| 29 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 30 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |