Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 2 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 3 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
| 4 | There 's little in Marshall 's CV to prepare you for the way this story , awash with sentimental pitfalls , is turned into a deeply stirring , full blooded drama . |
| 5 | I do n't like to think of you in the cottage all by yourself . ’ |
| 6 | It was from Mr Albert Thompson of Birmingham , who wrote : ‘ I saw a picture of you in the newspaper this morning and I felt very angry . |
| 7 | ‘ Left you in the Empire all by yourself for a couple of hours , I suppose . |
| 8 | ‘ Caught you on the hop this morning ! ’ said Postie . |
| 9 | Can I sit with you at the back some time . |
| 10 | But I still see you by the bed that time . |
| 11 | Anyway , the Old Man — well , he called me into the Sanctum this morning and said , had I heard anything from you , and I said no , and he said silly bitch , or words to that effect — with which I agree — said he 'd told you you should keep in touch with me . |
| 12 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 13 | Come and see me in the studio any time after that and I 'll present you with a couple of bottles of duty-free in compensation for any hassle . |
| 14 | I do n't like when there 's only er me in the house all day long , I do n't like it when the house , the house is too tidy , when er there 's no children around . |
| 15 | Sent memos all round , you know and he called me in the office that day , to say I 'm really disappointed in you , I said , what do you mean ? |
| 16 | like be doing his A levels and that she 's saying that she 's gon na take both of our stereos , lock them in the , lock them in the shed all day , take |
| 17 | It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did . |
| 18 | Yeah I 'm not , do n't tell them , I 'm not gon na leave them in the sink all day while you decide if you 're going to eat it or not |
| 19 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 20 | Only Tranmere have beaten them in the league this year . |
| 21 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 22 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 23 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |
| 24 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 25 | ‘ I noticed them on the launch this morning . ’ |
| 26 | I took in with me to the hospital some homoeopathic remedies which are specifics in cases of croup , namely aconite , spongia and Hepar sulphuris . |
| 27 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 28 | ‘ Yeah , and a long memory ; I still have n't forgiven you for not trying to rescue me on the ice that time . ’ |
| 29 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 30 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |