Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We understand from the Office of Fair Trading and the Consumer Credit Sub-Committee of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration that — although there is clearly opportunity for it within the close-knit personal relationship between the check trader and the customer — exploitation of customers seems very rare . |
| 2 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 3 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 4 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 5 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 6 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 7 | During a walkabout on Merseyside , the Princess of Wales was overcome by tears after the crowd voiced their support for her amid the current press controversy surrounding her marriage . |
| 8 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 9 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 10 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 11 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 12 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 13 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 15 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 16 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 17 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 18 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 19 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 20 | Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning ? |
| 21 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 22 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 23 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 24 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 25 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 26 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 27 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 28 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 29 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 30 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |