Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naked , come to Thee for dress ; |
| 2 | Helpless , look to Thee for grace ; |
| 3 | If I worship thee for fear of hell , |
| 4 | The majority of our sample ( 59% ) describe themselves as fairly confident they know what their sexual partner wants from them during sex . |
| 5 | During the Second World War , tram crews had to carry gas masks and don them during air raids , as this picture shows . |
| 6 | When the fertility genes ( about 30 ) reside in E. coli 's chromosome , parts of the adjacent chromosomal DNA are often transferred with them during conjugation . |
| 7 | Patients may find it difficult to come to terms with which of their friends , co-workers and employers did , or did not , communicate with them during hospitalisation . |
| 8 | For example , line management required a list of their staff , showing basic salary , age and other basic information in date of start order in order to aid them during appraisal sessions . |
| 9 | Now I 've got some tables in the car , and if you 'd like me to fetch them during break , I 'll , I 'll leave them on the table for you . |
| 10 | Health professionals and social workers all have closely demarcated responsibilities which are impressed on them during training and they often bring to mental health services traditional attitudes and approaches which can act as a brake on the development of new ways of doing things . |
| 11 | She and Giancarlo sat at a table with a distinguished-looking woman in her fifties , whose name Constance could not remember but who was referred to by everyone as Contessa , and her son , Pino , who laughed a lot and told Constance anecdotes about the other guests . |
| 12 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 13 | A gradual change or deterioration of each of the body 's systems which happens to everyone between childhood and old age . |
| 14 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 15 | The Board 's policy of completely absorbing all capital costs and charging nothing for income on capital amounts on average to a subsidy of ninety six pounds per resident per week . |
| 16 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 17 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 18 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 19 | That will do nothing for morale and recruitment in Glasgow . |
| 20 | Government plans to restructure the police force will do nothing for morale , and will not improve the service according to the Scottish Police Federation . |
| 21 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd have thought it would be the West End or nothing for Dane Jacobsen — superstar . ’ |
| 23 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 24 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 25 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 26 | Ai n't got nothing for tea now ! |
| 27 | bury something for later , just in case you do n't get nothing for supper |
| 28 | Do n't worry he 's not getting nothing for Christmas but a card and that 's it Ca n't even come and say hello , so bugger him ! |
| 29 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 30 | He could afford nothing for tobacco : |