Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Are you getting me out of bed at this hour to talk to me about my brother ? ’ she demanded . |
| 32 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 33 | The faces and voices of the two young men , one about my age , the other hardly fourteen , one standing right behind the newspaper man the other nestling next to him , were by no means devoid of expression . |
| 34 | This meant the knife ; bones were broken : what about my prospects of finally climbing Minus One Direct ? |
| 35 | I was there recently , talking to Dr Lalitha Vijayam about her research on the Siberian crane 's problems and about my chances of seeing one before the Ob river race becomes extinct . |
| 36 | Asked about my smacking him , he said : ‘ I do n't like it , ’ adding , ‘ It does n't hurt . |
| 37 | You speak about my ‘ plea for sponsorship ’ . |
| 38 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 39 | Speaking through an interpreter , Ahmed , 31 , said : ‘ I 'm very worried about my wife and children . |
| 40 | — Cecil Parkinson , Secretary of State for Transport ‘ The Prime Minister was worried about my appointment . |
| 41 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 42 | They all looked so young , but were about my age , between eighteen and twenty-five years . |
| 43 | Their plight made me feel rather guilty about my concern over the mosquito bites on my face . |
| 44 | If I have ever had any doubts about my work with Dire straits , I pull out one of their albums and play it . |
| 45 | ‘ I 'm potty about my two sons , ’ she says , adding , ‘ I 've always loved children . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'll tell you about my father , ’ she said at last . |
| 47 | Marie likes to ask me about my family and that , but I do n't really like talking about that much — except Annie , that is . |
| 48 | There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it . |
| 49 | To tell the truth , I could n't care less about my hair . |
| 50 | He 's pretty young — only about my age , and he paints a lot of the walls in the house — you know , with felt pens and spray cans and that . |
| 51 | I think about my legs , but I do n't really have no feeling in them . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's about my husband . |
| 53 | All this time I was desperately worried about my family . |
| 54 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 55 | I never , ever worry about my age . |
| 56 | ‘ I never worry about my age . |
| 57 | ‘ Can I tell you about my hair ? ’ |
| 58 | I 'm really confident and positive about my music , it 's really energetic and it 's fun music , and I think a lotta people need that these days . ’ |
| 59 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 60 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |