Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 2 | I talked to them during rehearsals in 1985 . |
| 3 | Not only does a tower provide a landmark , alerting everyone for miles around to the presence of the brewery , it also provides the brewery with a trademark , though on the printed version the mill has acquired the adornment of four sales — historically inaccurate but more symmetrical ! |
| 4 | Everyone for miles around lived in terror of them . |
| 5 | Then , with horror , he realised that Johnny knew — had discovered the secret he had managed to keep hidden from everyone for years . |
| 6 | Ah know nothin' about sails , nor does Nils — he 's a wizard of an engineer , that 's all . |
| 7 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 8 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 9 | But such a move does nothing for women , or for the concept of the feminine per se : it expands our understanding of what is to be considered authentically male . |
| 10 | While much media attention was given to the recent tax incentives ( made available for workplace nurseries only — introduced in the last budget ( April 1990 ) , it was felt that this means nothing for women in West Belfast or the North of Ireland in general . |
| 11 | There was nothing for women and children and nowhere for women to go . |
| 12 | Unless , of course , you believe John Smith , whose alternative budget said , nothing for pensions but a two hundred and eighty five million for training . |
| 13 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown slammed the ‘ arrogant complacency ’ of Ministers who did nothing for homeowners , the unemployed or small businesses . |
| 14 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 15 | You 'd be doing nothing for hours , kicking your heels on the boundary , then , without any warning , the ball would be skied towards you , and suddenly the outcome of the entire match would rest on your shoulders . |
| 16 | ‘ There 'll be nothing for hours . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have paid it , but I forgot and heard nothing for ages . |
| 18 | ‘ Sarn-Major tells me there 's nothing for Memoranda this morning , so officers can fall out . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was nothing for girls , only drudgery and breeding , specially paupers like herself . |
| 21 | There was usually literally nothing for clients to do but sit , watch television , or walk about . |
| 22 | Often there are letters in the papers from parents who have sent off for T-shirts and pictures from a band 's fan club , only to have their cheque cashed and to receive nothing for months . |
| 23 | I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months . |
| 24 | The deal , announced by Mr Major in the Commons last week , is designed to answer Labour accusations that his six-month EC presidency has done nothing for jobs . |
| 25 | Apart from the construction industry in the south-east , it does nothing for jobs . ’ |
| 26 | And what does say about that ? says that we will keep the level of charges down in the now privately owned companies providing public utilities so there 'll be nothing for dividends . |
| 27 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 28 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 29 | It would certainly not seem sensible to teach these skills in a context which did not allow children to put them to use immediately , nor would it seem sensible to teach them through sets of exercises independent of any meaningful content area . |
| 30 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |