Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 2 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 3 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 4 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 5 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 6 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 7 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 8 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 9 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 10 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 11 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 12 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 13 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 14 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 15 | SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 16 | Simply serve them in tiny bowls or hors-d'oeuvre dishes , or pile up little mounds of them beside the sliced lamb and beef . |
| 17 | If she had entrusted one of them with her secret thoughts , made one of them into a particular friend , it would have created immediate parochial difficulties , rifts and divisions and jealousies . |
| 18 | Compaoré had earlier sought to appease opposition figures when on July 26 he brought a number of them into the transitional government . |
| 19 | Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely . |
| 20 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 21 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 22 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 23 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 24 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 25 | When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace . |
| 26 | Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value . |
| 27 | The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used . |
| 28 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 29 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 30 | ‘ I would sell any of them to a non-Asian but I do n't know who they are . |