Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them . |
| 2 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 3 | With a few deft eye-blinks they can clear their field of vision and watch the world about them for clues of special danger . |
| 4 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 5 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 6 | He 'd read books about murders and we talked about them for years . |
| 7 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 8 | I told comic stories about them to Richard 's Oxford friends — my own had drifted away and I did n't mind , seeing them through Richard 's eyes as too solemn , too dull , always discussing the balance of payments — and felt no twinge of guilt . |
| 9 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 10 | Joe was still careful to keep their meetings secret lest some kind friend wrote about them to Terry , but Maureen and Sarah 's father made the meetings easier for them . |
| 11 | Hence the need for general forecasts about them to be included in the marketing process . |
| 12 | I do n't think I ever talked about them to anyone . ’ |
| 13 | information on absentees and what was being done about them to be regularly fed back to appropriate staff |
| 14 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 15 | She always paints well , but her colour is sickly in many instances here , and her choice of subjects not attractive ; to say the least , there was something decidedly unpleasant about them to me , they seemed clinical . |
| 16 | Erm , talked about them to County Council staff only today . |
| 17 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 18 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 19 | You are therefore obliged to base your judgements and conclusions about them on what you hear them say and how they say it . |
| 20 | It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side . |
| 21 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 22 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 23 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 24 | And props ; what do you do about them at your audition ? |
| 25 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 26 | And most of the other wordings discussed have no sense of ‘ request ’ about them at all . |
| 27 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 28 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 29 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 30 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |