Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each of my sisters — one of them without realising it — were used as emotional weapons against me to get what he wanted in the way of sex . |
| 2 | I have always been interested in maps and looking for odd placenames on them . |
| 3 | Surely it 's worth fifty dollars to you ? ’ |
| 4 | During our fire-watching , Richard seized every opportunity for private talks with me , which were often interrupted by air-raid warnings . |
| 5 | He lay about fifty metres from it , ’ said Mortimer . |
| 6 | From your point of view apart from waiting for further calls from her what can the police do ? |
| 7 | ‘ Sergeant Bird will be back for further words with you shortly . ’ |
| 8 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 9 | And now , ’ he went on curtly , ‘ if we 're not to continue discussing your family heirlooms , do you think you could spare a moment to run through some figures with me ? ’ |
| 10 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 12 | He was lying in the middle of the bed with out stuffed animals around him and a big pile of clean laundry at the foot of the bed . |
| 13 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 14 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 15 | We suggest that you always differentiate between the educational effectiveness with a new user of the unit CD L , and the educational effectiveness after several lessons with it CDL . |
| 16 | We have already seen premium rate pay like double time for Sunday working attacked after statutory controls on them were removed in nineteen eighty six . |
| 17 | Now her sole companion was the television , which was intrusive after two weeks without it . |
| 18 | ‘ I bet they do n't keep themselves waiting for six weeks for it then , ’ Sharon snapped back . |
| 19 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 20 | In [ 18b ] the hearer is not trusted to supply the contextual assumption about house-warming parties for him or herself . |
| 21 | When the time arrives , the proposer has 10 minutes to speak in favour of his Bill and an opposer may speak for 10 minutes against it . |
| 22 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 23 | This in my opinion is a poor reward for honest persons like me . |
| 24 | The same ostentatious pride in Southern good manners also prompted him to sit up immediately when one of the ship 's white-uniformed junior officers appeared at his side bearing a tray of iced drinks for him , his wife and two sons . |
| 25 | As it stands , the force of economic interests against them looks irresistible . |
| 26 | Emboldened by an alliance with Britain made in 1902 , Japan attacked Russian forces in January 1904 and proceeded to inflict a series of devastating defeats upon her by land and sea . |
| 27 | That is , until a large white flag was hoisted and a party of resplendent heralds beneath it , these proceeding to pick their way heedfully in and out of the ditches , towards the North Gate . |
| 28 | I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him . |
| 29 | April is bound to be a month of far-reaching changes for you , and after all the cards have been laid on the table around the full Moon on the 10th you will feel completely relieved and at peace with yourself . |
| 30 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |