Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
| 2 | As regards res as my friend put it in opening , |
| 3 | She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’ |
| 4 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 5 | I put my bags between my feet to feel them with my legs , and took out my flight ticket . |
| 6 | Discovered in 1844 , it was called Peyronne 's chloride after its discoverer to distinguish it from another complex with the same formula , known as trans- DDP . |
| 7 | The Diesis colt had only two runs last season and on his final outing at York in July he was fourth to Golden Chip after which injury kept him off the course . |
| 8 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 9 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 10 | The inquisition post mortem held after his death shows him in possession of lands worth over £60 a year . |
| 11 | An anonymous memorandum sent to Rome just after his death accused him of storing up great wealth and even of having profited from the neglect of the episcopal estates , accusations which can not be substantiated but which may not have been complete fabrications . |
| 12 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 13 | ‘ This story of Terry 's about going after your father to ask him for a loan to buy a small-holding — what do you make of that ? ’ |
| 14 | She was philosophical about her stepson blaming her for allowing his father 's foot to become so black , saying that Alex had to look after himself . |
| 15 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 16 | Theda waited for her visitor to compose herself before speaking . |
| 17 | So this is knocked off her £112.55 leaving her with £99.90 to pay . |
| 18 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 19 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 20 | She had her hand on the door , but , before she could follow through her intention to slam it in his face , Naylor gave a mighty roar of utter outrage . |
| 21 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 22 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 23 | In August 1717 Alberoni began trying to persuade Charles XII of Sweden and Czar peter the Great of Russia to sink their differences in return for a present of £100,000 from the Pretender , to pay for their armies to restore him to his throne . |
| 24 | It asserted the need for social reform within a broad imperial policy and attacked the official leaders of the Labour movement for their failure to dissociate themselves from pacifists and militants . |
| 25 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 26 | What happened was , one of my students wrote something in an examination essay and it got me fired . |
| 27 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 28 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 29 | Many of my friends followed me to Paris or they disappeared or they died . |
| 30 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |