Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 2 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 3 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 4 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 5 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 6 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 7 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 8 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 9 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 10 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |
| 11 | They were so transparent and thin , you could put them through a wedding ring . |
| 12 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 13 | And top fitness consultant Martica Heaner is putting them through a walking , aerobics and swimming plan . |
| 14 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 15 | The youth led them through a brick archway into a second room overflowing with cardboard boxes , many of them open to reveal their contents . |
| 16 | To read them through a lens drawn from another context , for example that of later church history , is to impose a construction on the material for which there is no warrant . |
| 17 | Boil them slowly till they are all to pieces ; then squeeze and strain them through a bag . |
| 18 | Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve . |
| 19 | ( v ) Separate the embryos from other cellular debris by mouth pipette , wash them through a warm pre-equilibrated drop of M16 + BSA ( Table 5 ) and culture them in the same medium under paraffin oil at 37 C in 5% CO2 in air . |
| 20 | ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series . |
| 21 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 22 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 23 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 24 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 25 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 26 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 27 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 28 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 29 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |
| 30 | Students may enter complex calculations from sources such as passed examination papers and the computer will take them through a solution step by step . |