Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 4 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 5 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 6 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 7 | Erm it is our position that we would support and regard as as the best approach one based on past land take-up . |
| 8 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 9 | Mean arterial pressure was the most important variable to adjust for between the two groups . |
| 10 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 11 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 12 | And there you have , not a very good picture , but you can see this was th with the goods shed as per the last ordnance survey map . |
| 13 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 14 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 15 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 16 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 17 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 18 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 19 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 20 | People in the street are asked to prepare for an influx of refugees who will be looked after in the local church hall . |
| 21 | You will be made very welcome in his pretty ‘ Hansel and Gretel ’ Gasthof , and very well looked after by the friendly owner , Frau Henn . |
| 22 | Dr Zhurid said Brightness and Gorgeous , the other beluga , would be looked after by the Moscow-based Institute of Evolution and Animal Morphology . |
| 23 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 24 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 25 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 26 | The Cutty Sark is now looked after by the Maritime Trust , who teamed up with the Cutty Sark Society in 1989 . |
| 27 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 28 | Certainly one would visit the cottage at Higher Bockhampton where Hardy was born ( now looked after by the National Trust ) and Stinsford church where his heart is buried . |
| 29 | In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family . |
| 30 | It 's interesting to see what it all looks like in the grand scope of things . ’ |