Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed an hour , was perhaps only five minutes — and he left , saying only , ‘ I must to the arms of Morpheus . |
| 2 | I know that some colleagues are aware of this but sadly recently passed away and I must by the colleagues in the Midland and East Coast region er to thank everybody who put into the er the collection on behalf of the . |
| 3 | I think I 've suggested the problem now , and now I 'm going to leave the parties to think about would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built developm think I 'll under the circumstances I 'll give you er the the normal time , and I will adjourn now until two fifteen to have a chance to think about that . |
| 4 | The only way I could do this was to make myself as familiar as I could to the members of the schools . |
| 5 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 6 | I did the best I could in the circumstances , Mr Calder , but you can hardly blame me if I find it difficult to appear besotted with your charms ! ’ |
| 7 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 8 | I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned . |
| 9 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 10 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 11 | She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers , which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat , and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt , neither of which sported designer labels . |
| 12 | She pulled over as far as she could into the bushes at the side of the lane and slowed down while the car , a beaten-up old Ford , passed . |
| 13 | ‘ She did the only thing she could under the circumstances . |
| 14 | Elizabeth had done all she could in the circumstances to provide the best possible start in life for her sons once her husband had died . |
| 15 | Bravely , she shut her mind as firmly as she could against the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows cast by great trees or trod across soggy glades that made her think with a shudder of hidden bogs . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 18 | I 'm going to adopt the editorial " we " and you may then pay more attention than you would to the burblings of a recent graduate . |
| 19 | Clearly you would n't write in the same way for the Sun as you would for the Times or the Financial Times or the Guardian , or the Cambridge local paper . |
| 20 | Yer Mum 's done the best she can under the circumstances . ’ |
| 21 | Pay particular attention to the relationship between the different ways you identify , and be as explicit as you can about the connections between them . |
| 22 | Keep the sail driving for as long as you can through the tacks . |
| 23 | How you do this will depend upon your own personality and your relationship with her , but however it is done , the message she will be hoping to receive through your words and actions will be that you care , you sympathise , and that you are going to stand by her and give her all the help and comfort you can in the months that lie ahead . |
| 24 | After that , find out what you can from the residents here . ’ |
| 25 | In answering a question you should , of course , give as much detail as you can within the limits of the question . |
| 26 | Once the vertebrates were established they quickly acquired hard parts displaying great complexity when compared with most invertebrate phyla ( we should except the arthropods , perhaps ) . |
| 27 | And he especially wants to encourage female football players to join : ‘ We do n't get the response we should from the girls it would be nice to see more at the schools . ’ |
| 28 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 29 | If we can determine ‘ origins ’ in Shakespearean drama , it is likely to be through examining what evidence we can of the plays ' 'destinations ' , the conditions of performance in the theatre matched with the cultural and social conditions of production . |
| 30 | The senior chief inspector and I have made the best estimate we can of the savings that can be made in the complement of Her Majesty 's inspectorate based in local offices and engaged in the inspection of schools in liaison with local education authorities . |