Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You taught me that without a man a woman 's life is bleak , empty , and dangerous ; you taught me that a woman is n't complete without a man . |
| 2 | you owe me that for a year . |
| 3 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 4 | Charlotte told me this in a letter she sent from Scarborough , a town by the sea on the north-east coast . |
| 5 | And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present |
| 6 | I drink everything I earn , which does n't make me much of a drunk I might tell you . ’ |
| 7 | he 's interested in ya all of a sudden |
| 8 | They 're a damn sight more efficient than this I 'll tell you that for a start |
| 9 | And he ai n't ! is not gon na , I tell you that for a start ! |
| 10 | because they do , I mean they 're not , they 're not going to ask you that as a question . |
| 11 | I 'll , I 'll get you some in a minute , er , I 'll carry on if er , if er , you do n't mind I 've got , oh here we are , I fo , I had n't given them out sorry . |
| 12 | I tell you something , I tell you this as a friend , because I have a sympathy for you … |
| 13 | ‘ Alan I owe you this from a year back . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have so much to say that I can not tell you half in a letter . |
| 15 | But do n't be erm er led into doing growth , growth P E Ps necessarily , because growth P E Ps really wo n't give you much of a deal . |
| 16 | Who are you all of a sudden ? |
| 17 | And then when you all of a sudden you ca n't do it because there 's another . |
| 18 | It must have been quite a shock for you all of a sudden to be dealing with millions of pounds on the budget . |
| 19 | A simple tweak on , say , the treble slider gives you enough of a change , but without biting your head off , as some acoustic graphics are prone to doing . |
| 20 | It leaves me all in a sweat . |
| 21 | You got me all in a lather , and then slid out from under me . ’ |
| 22 | And Donald 's gon na go and take away all those words and he 's gon na put them all into a dictionary all by himself . |
| 23 | Gabriel put them all into a canvas bag and hung them on a nail inside the cottage door . |
| 24 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 25 | This means that you are seen by several people , individually , in succession , rather than facing them all as a group . |
| 26 | Being , as he said , temporarily flush , he took them all for a plate of spaghetti in a ‘ trat ’ in Mondano . |
| 27 | I saw them all on a rail . |
| 28 | Judith Gersting 's Mathematical Structures for Computer Science provides a lucid path through set , theory , logic , algebraic structures , and combinatorics ; she covers them all in a quarter of the usual space , showing what a mess plenty of mathematics texts manage to make . |
| 29 | She kept them all in a portfolio ; the fuzz took it away . ’ |
| 30 | If we get them all in a row , we could do that one ah . |