Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 2 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 3 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 4 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 5 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 6 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 7 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 8 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 9 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 10 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 11 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 12 | The aim behind this use of the Commissioner 's name is twofold : to give assisted persons more assurance that the Commissioner stands behind them in the proceedings , and to increase public awareness of the grant of assistance and of the Commissioner . |
| 13 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 14 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 15 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 16 | Many owls have such a perfect sense of hearing that they can locate and catch small creatures in the pitch dark , landing upon them with the claws correctly aligned to grasp them along the spine . |
| 17 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to write to me about the details of the case to which he referred I shall be happy to respond . |
| 19 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 20 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 21 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 22 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 23 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 24 | Apparently she then picked herself up and in fact ran from the scene but Mrs did n't stop and did n't make enquiries as to who the girl was and neither was the matter reported by her to the police in due course . |
| 25 | Might not Jesus himself have been rather different from the picture given of him in the gospels and the subsequent teaching of the church ? |
| 26 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 27 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 28 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 29 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 30 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |