Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 2 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 4 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a wonderful opportunity , Christian , and I 'm grateful for your trust in me but you 've already agreed to sell me that fifty acres of new land . |
| 6 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 7 | Give me that any day over bedroom music . ’ |
| 8 | And I learn quite a lot myself but it does give me that little bit of a challenge that er I think is helpful in retirement . |
| 9 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 10 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 11 | It should also remind them that present relationships of power and authority were evolved to reflect a diffused distribution of decision-making and an imprecise definition of curriculum . |
| 12 | But , at the same time this training must in no circumstances produce in them that destructive feeling of guilt , known as a ‘ guilt complex ’ . |
| 13 | There is not in them that sombre atmosphere of a mortal struggle which we find in the second part of Daniel . |
| 14 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 15 | It 's a police job already so why not give them some solid evidence like burn marks ? ’ |
| 16 | Other transaction processing monitor vendors — NCR Corp and Unix System Labs Inc — have also licensed parts of the Retix software , but are doing their own integration work , which will leave them some six months behind Transarc , says Retix . |
| 17 | Briefly , what needs to be shown if the anti-monist argument is going to work is that it is in principle impossible to remove such predicates from the relevant contexts and substitute for them some other predicates without any loss of truth . |
| 18 | Results indicated that the ‘ houseplant group ’ lived significantly longer than a matched control group , perhaps simply because the plants gave them some extra purpose in life . |
| 19 | They protect the managers by giving them some overall security of employment and a remuneration package , usually including a pension , a car and other benefits . |
| 20 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 21 | Valeria had a wind-up gramophone and many records , among them some American ones like ‘ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ’ , ‘ Begin the Beguine ’ , ‘ Waltz Triste ’ adapted for dancing , and many others . |
| 22 | Without economic revival , the Conservatives have been hard-pressed to identify a single reason that would justify giving them another five years in office . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me this earthshattering news of yours . ’ |
| 24 | She 's going now and gon na leave me this old crap on the table ! . |
| 25 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 26 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 27 | For me this generous use of natural reverberation acts as a tonic after so many recordings where the acoustics seem too dry or contrived . |
| 28 | Why do n't you show me this wondrous park of yours ? ’ |
| 29 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 30 | It is a privilege to pay them this small token of respect . |