Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
2 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
3 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
4 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
5 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
6 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
7 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
8 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
9 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
10 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
11 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
12 | She got through it without a mistake . |
13 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |
14 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
15 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
16 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
17 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
18 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
19 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
20 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
21 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
22 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
23 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
24 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
25 | Under the special cover we have arranged for you with the Norwich Union , all Insured Persons of any age are covered , and the Policy will cover you should you have to cancel your holiday for certain reasons . |
26 | Buildings insurance is essential and therefore usually arranged for you by the Society . |
27 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
28 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
29 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
30 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |