Example sentences of "of [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 4 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | And think better of me in the future ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ They have incorporated a lot of me in the role . |
| 10 | For it 's time they saw more of me in the south , Iago , where I shall not be expected . |
| 11 | These hands , and the crisp white shirtsleeves that lead away from them , are the only signs of me in the room . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ Simon said impatiently , ‘ so far there have only been passing mentions of me in the papers , but when I become famous the media interest will soar . |
| 13 | ‘ Guy Ferris , the photographer , gave up trying to get a good shot of me in the end . |
| 14 | As Stella says : ‘ There 's a load of people in front of me in the queue for jobs , is n't there ? ’ |
| 15 | And today the public have er returned their gesture in honour of me in the returning of the guilty verdict . |
| 16 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 17 | At the time of publication ( 1987 ) it listed almost 300 Holtzapffel lathes still in existence in the world with 20 per cent of them in the United States . |
| 18 | The production of Mark 3 vehicles , at first for the High Speed Trains , began in 1975 , but the proportion of even top-grade express trains composed of them in the early 1980s was stili small . |
| 19 | He scored 24 tries , two of them in the epic Challenge Cup final victory over Hull . |
| 20 | The kinds of people who were most aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who were most aware of them in the mid-term ( Table 7.6 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The uncle 's car was an old Ford V8 with enormous fins and there was more than enough room for all of them in the back . |
| 23 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 24 | BRITAIN closed on the two teams ahead of them in the NorTel Southern Cross Cup series when Juno IV finished fourth , Heaven Can Wait seventh and Canon Express tenth in the fourth race yesterday — and there is a protest to be heard against two of the New South Wales team who lead the series , 11.5 points ahead of Australia and 21.5 ahead of Britain , writes Bob Fisher . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | It was shots , a series of them in the distance . |
| 27 | He had not seen any of them in the papers , so some had probably replied personally . |
| 28 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |
| 29 | With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives . |
| 30 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |