Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you make sketches of me through the spy-hole when I was undressing ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 3 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 4 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 5 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 6 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 7 | Far down in you you felt a new stirring , a new nakedness emerging … the sudden quiver of me at the springing of my seed , then the slow-subsiding thrust . ’ |
| 8 | It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs . |
| 9 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 10 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 11 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 14 | rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I . |
| 15 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 16 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 17 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 18 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 19 | If one of those things does n't t ally with the record of me on the machine , then the doors will lock — including the doors to the elevators — and alarms will sound in about twenty places on the compound as well as in New York . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 21 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 22 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 23 | He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager . |
| 24 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 25 | I had run through the ranks of one gang from the rear , and was approaching the other , twenty-five yards ahead of me along the pavement . |
| 26 | Tucked into the shadows ahead of me along the pavement the two blacks had melted out of sight . |
| 27 | This separation of me from the rest has led psychologists to develop a concept called ‘ the self ’ . |
| 28 | A faint wisp of smoke rose ahead of me from the town dump . |
| 29 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 30 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |