Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The I 'm your representative for the minster governors and I 'll be slipping out later on this evening if I may of the installation of the new headteacher , that will be seven minutes time so if you 'll excuse me .
2 I must at the outset declare and interest .
3 No I think I might in the box .
4 So what I 'm gon na do is use the , let's see , it 's minus three , plus I 'll minus the square in B square , sixteen strand , minus four times the eight , nine C , well I 'm gon na do that , four times eight , nine C , equals plus nine all over to A , just two .
5 I 'll have to tell him that I 'll post the card on to him .
6 I 'll in the eye , do n't want this waste my expensive deodorant !
7 So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need
8 But if I do n't pick it up , cos if I do n't take it in I 'll in the morning .
9 Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan .
10 My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship .
11 And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery .
12 I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house .
13 I had discovered all I could for the moment .
14 ‘ Not too good , I 'm afraid — I did everything I could for the moment , but his kidney failure is almost complete .
15 I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward .
16 ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto .
17 I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement .
18 After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South .
19 So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction
20 ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked .
21 ‘ I just did what I could around the place , milking the cows and making sure everything had enough to eat .
22 Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife .
23 What we 're are saying is , There are the sites , they do n't have the development constraints that I would to the extent erm that you believe erm they have , and Skelton and the two objection sites are very well located a whole range of service facilities and employment opportunities , and development on those sites would fit squarely within local plan policy .
24 I would for the moment , yeah , I would for the moment .
25 I would for the moment , yeah , I would for the moment .
26 More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there .
27 I will post the score tommorrow .
28 And the more I delve into computers , the more I realise just how negligible my knowledge is , despite reading everything I can about the subject .
29 He said : ‘ I have told you all I can about the attack on you .
30 Oh I think I 've told you about all that I can about the glen .
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