Example sentences of "of [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 2 | For it 's time they saw more of me in the south , Iago , where I shall not be expected . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ They have incorporated a lot of me in the role . |
| 4 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 5 | These hands , and the crisp white shirtsleeves that lead away from them , are the only signs of me in the room . |
| 6 | ‘ Guy Ferris , the photographer , gave up trying to get a good shot of me in the end . |
| 7 | And think better of me in the future ! ’ |
| 8 | And today the public have er returned their gesture in honour of me in the returning of the guilty verdict . |
| 9 | And if People magazine wanted to take a picture of me in the surf with a stuffed animal , or whatever the fuck it was , then hey , the joke 's on them . ’ |
| 10 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 11 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 12 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 13 | As Stella says : ‘ There 's a load of people in front of me in the queue for jobs , is n't there ? ’ |
| 14 | There were piles of them in the smithy anyway . |
| 15 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 16 | 9.1.6 the Tenant has any distress or execution levied on [ its ] goods the Landlord may re-enter the Premises ( or any part of them in the name of the whole ) at any time ( and even if any previous right of re-entry has been waived ) and then the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies which may have accrued to the Landlord against the Tenant or the Guarantor [ or to the Tenant against the Landlord ] in respect of any breach of covenant or other term of this Lease ( including the breach in respect of which the re-entry is made ) All leases will , or should , contain a forfeiture provision which is usually in the form of a proviso reserving to the landlord a right of re-entry in the event of non-payment of rent , breach of covenant or circumstances resulting in , or likely to give rise to , the probability of the tenant being unable to perform its obligations under the lease , eg bankruptcy or liquidation . |
| 17 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 18 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 19 | And if peptides really did code for memories , should there not be many more of them in the brain than one actually finds ? |
| 20 | I told her — as I am happy to tell you — that I had met Clare Mallender on three or four occasions , all of them in the company of other people . |
| 21 | Many animals that do not inhabit the especially favoured areas all the time , none the less make use of them in the course of their lives . |
| 22 | I used to supervise undergraduates at Cambridge and keep one week ahead of them in the course . |
| 23 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 24 | Dedicated enthusiasts will be able to make themselves familiar with the brighter galaxies , and use binoculars to make regular surveys of them in the hope of catching sight of a supernova . |
| 25 | At the time of the last and only census of 1897 , there were more of them in the Vitebsk area than in any other part of the Empire except for Kovno , Vilno , and Grodno . |
| 26 | Though ‘ the diagram I have in view ’ includes particular details , ‘ there is not the least mention made of them in the proof of the proposition . ’ |
| 27 | they 're French ones as well , so actually er , I 've got two boxes of them in the boot , in the boot of the car |
| 28 | Within months of the outbreak of war a group of young men , most of them in the ILP , had established the No-Conscription Fellowship ( NCF ) . |
| 29 | It was shots , a series of them in the distance . |
| 30 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |