Example sentences of "[pers pn] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 32 | Once the plants branch out and grow thick , they can be pruned to keep them under control and stimulate new growth . |
| 33 | This had the desired effect of quietening them again , and he acted while he still had them under control . |
| 34 | Thousands of fires were reported to be burning , and in many cases firefighters were attacked while attempting to bring them under control . |
| 35 | After martial law had failed to bring them under control , there came a last military experiment with the designation of General Azhari to succeed Sharif-Emami . |
| 36 | If you know you tend to talk with your hands , how 're you gon na keep them under control ? |
| 37 | If the upper echelons of power were largely occupied by older groups , traditionally established there , from 1830 ( in France ) , from 1848 ( in Germany ) the bourgeoisie ‘ assaulted and conquered the lower levels of political power ’ , such as municipal councils , mayoralties , district councils , etc. , and kept them under control until the rise of mass politics in the last decades of the century . |
| 38 | Immediately she was surrounded by the other occupants of the pool , who crowded around her , laughing and urging her right into the water and ignoring the grey-haired woman who was trying to keep them under control . |
| 39 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 40 | It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control . |
| 41 | In general the " proper officer " draws up and serves judgments and final orders and orders for directions under Ord 13 , r 2 and Ord 17 , r 1(a) , and serves them under Ord 7 , r 1 on every party against whom judgment was given or the order made ( Ord 22 , r 1(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 42 | At PFK we 've also used them under gravel and growing media ( where they maintain a lot of their thickness depth despite the pressure ) to encourage good plant rooting . |
| 43 | You do , sort of , put them under wear and tear . |
| 44 | We 've got them under surveillance . |
| 45 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 46 | James Jeffrey , 50 , Charles Smith , also 50 , and Kevin Thorn , 33 , were arrested in November , 1990 , after anti-drug squad officers had kept them under surveillance in the Spanish capital and on the Costa del Sol for several months . |
| 47 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 48 | But if they were knowingly involved in the carrying on of unauthorised investment business that provides the rationale for orders against them under section 6(2) . |
| 49 | Strathdee 's report for Centrepoint showed that over half the 32 London boroughs she researched had no procedures in place to assess homeless young people despite the statutory obligation placed on them under Section 20 of the Children Act . |
| 50 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 51 | These confessions were withdrawn by the accused because they claimed they were extracted from them under duress , including beatings . |
| 52 | Whilst the plague lasted many chaplains and curates were not carrying out their duties and the Bishop commanded them under pain of interdict and suspension to return to their parishes . |
| 53 | But they decided to keep me under observation until I was safely out of the third month . |
| 54 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 55 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 56 | That 's what got me under par today . |
| 57 | But no-one 's ever put me under pressure . |
| 58 | In this instance , I am asking the Court whether , having regard to the terms of its judgment upon Mr. Berry 's application for relisting , the Court considers that it has the power to entertain an appeal of the whole case upon a reference to the Court by me under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Act . |
| 59 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 60 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |