Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish Vitor did n't have this bee in the bonnet about me being a working girl . |
| 2 | And talk about me being an honorary man and you know , take the piss out of what I say , like how Geoff [ the Head ] did when I complained bitterly about that bloke [ a workman who had whistled at her ] . |
| 3 | We had much evidence during fieldwork that these complicated rules are maintained by community pressures : for example , when a young East Belfast informant applied a strategy of front-raising ( similar to RP ) to the item chap ( on a word-list ) , he was loudly mocked by his companions , who perceived his pronunciation as an attempt at RP ( which for them is an effeminate stereotype ) . |
| 4 | More important for them is the other alternative which can follow the first primitive stage : feudalism . |
| 5 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 6 | But the practice of creating these uses and trusts was popular and was growing , and the absence of all legal protection for them was a great hardship . |
| 7 | For some firms the most urgent necessity was simply to reduce immediate labour costs , and decentralization for them was a straight-forward way of finding cheaper labour . |
| 8 | The situation for them was a total one : and it was from this totality — the ritual killing of the frog , the dismembering and the unusual behaviour of the bone in the running stream — that they gained their conviction . |
| 9 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 10 | I know the rails are electric , but the gap between them is a whole yard wide . |
| 11 | Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side . |
| 12 | Men are bigger and sexier than women ; every encounter between them is a sexual encounter , the only important market is the sexual market , and therefore women 's resources , life-styles and class position are ultimately determined by the ‘ biological facts ’ of female sexual attractiveness and male sexual aggression . |
| 13 | The attempt to choose between them is an unreal project . |
| 14 | The space between them is the third dimension . |
| 15 | Between them are the tall , narrow , round-headed windows . |
| 16 | Between them was a tommy gun , discharging itself into the air . |
| 17 | In between them was the drooping branch of an apple tree . |
| 18 | A full-time multiprofessional Management Board would be created to implement its policies and the link between them was the Chief Executive who sat on both . |
| 19 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 20 | ‘ I think 7pc support for me is a drastic understatement and I am certain that is because of the way the Tories questioned people , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Most powerful for me is the tragic loss that the chess world — both living and generations to come — has suffered through Fischer 's self imposed 20 years exile . |
| 22 | That for me is the ideal copy ’ . |
| 23 | The only disappointing aspect for me was the unbearable tension caused by the starter who ‘ held ’ the men for an unbelievably long time , causing false starts . |
| 24 | Oh I could have er er well it does n't debar me but I feel it , it would it would n't be right , for me being a Labour Party member sitting on a , a non-segregated and non-political gr er ah association , |
| 25 | about I 'm the best thing in your life But |
| 26 | Looking after them is a nice little earner for Nepal , the preferred base . |
| 27 | After them was a black dog . |
| 28 | Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass . |
| 29 | And striding across the bailey towards them was a tall , dark man of about fitzAlan 's age , dressed in businesslike chainmail and armed with both sword and bow . |
| 30 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |