Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 2 | As one planner told SAVE , ‘ A few letters from potential purchasers asking about a neglected listed building gives me the necessary ammunition to persuade my council to serve a Repairs Notice on the owner . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me the Freudian view takes both into account . |
| 4 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 5 | But Michael called me the other day to say : ‘ I was n't getting anywhere until you contacted the insurance company and my agents . |
| 6 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 7 | Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ? |
| 8 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 9 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 10 | Are you telling me the old bat did n't pass it on ? ’ |
| 11 | I , that , for me the hardest thing to do is example is study Spanish . |
| 12 | Above them the lavish sculpture continues with a graphic depiction of a man being eaten by lions , a play on Leoni 's name . |
| 13 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 14 | Robin Barton had been asking his dad , Bernard , about setting up a tropical aquarium , and when they saw PFK 's beginners ' series it gave them the final incentive to begin . |
| 15 | Below them the great garden stretched away , flanked by the two great rivers , the whole enclosed within a single , unbroken wall , its lakes and pagodas , its tiny woods and flower beds , its bridges and shaded walkways a pleasure to behold . |
| 16 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 17 | You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’ |
| 18 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 19 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 20 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 21 | Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote . |
| 22 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 23 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 24 | They were at floor-level , and beyond the empty ranks of seats above them the only light came from two dim green EXIT signs . |
| 25 | Behind them the human voice sang on . |
| 26 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 27 | The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs . |
| 28 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 29 | To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs . |
| 30 | That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success . |