Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a possible source for Loulou we can , I think , eliminate the mother of a ‘ hideous ’ English family encountered by Gustave on the boat from Alexandria to Cairo : with a green eyeshade attached to her bonnet , she looked ‘ like a sick old parrot ’ . |
| 2 | We talked about hair we talked about make-up . |
| 3 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 4 | And for Mum it had to be Tom or Englebert . |
| 5 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 6 | The most important challenge to the laissez faire mentality within Congregationalism came from Joseph Parker in 1901 when as Chairman he placed a cat among the pigeons with his usual dexterity . |
| 7 | As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting , holding it together , and devising an effective way of working . |
| 8 | As chairman you can make or break the meeting by rewarding the wrong kind of behaviour by participants . |
| 9 | As chairman you should be asking yourself three key questions throughout the meeting : |
| 10 | As chairman you are expected to stay neutral , especially if you are the most senior person present . |
| 11 | If you are to succeed as Chairman you must be well versed in what the committee 's task is supposed to be . |
| 12 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 13 | ‘ As chairman I shall be working to ensure that the business voice is clearly heard in any discussions on any issue affecting the economic well being of this area , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 15 | Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure . |
| 16 | For support they both leant against the seat of an armchair . |
| 17 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 18 | Mark generally uses the flesh of his r/hand thumb and first finger , plus occasionally his second ( do n't use your fingernails ) , and for support he tends to rest his palm on the bridge and his remaining fingers on the front of the guitar … |
| 19 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 20 | Calling on Lenin for support he claimed that the interests of French colonies , including the Indochinese , were best served by a ‘ free , trusting and paternal union with France ’ . |
| 21 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 22 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 23 | The process is satirically described by Nashe in the Anatomie of Martin Marprelate : ‘ Having bestowed his bowels in a ditch … and filled his hungry belly … with coal dust , for spice they could not bestow ( his carrion being not worth it ) and sawdust they could have none ; they wrapped him in a blanket … for that all others are lapped in sheets . ’ |
| 24 | As camouflage they must obtain local clothing . |
| 25 | If the police were thinking about blackmail it would n't be long before they got to Barbara Porter . |
| 26 | ‘ For income I 'd again select a combination of funds . |
| 27 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 28 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 29 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 30 | It still ca n't handle halftones but for text it is more than adequate . |