Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 2 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 3 | No , we both like pizzas , but to dream about them at the same time , and he 's screaming out in his sleep , get me a pizza |
| 4 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 5 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 6 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 7 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 8 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 9 | He sees the cost of effective management training as nothing against the true cost of incompetent management . |
| 10 | It finds a place for everyone within the divine purpose , regardless of their background , status or gender . |
| 11 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 12 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 13 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 14 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 15 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 16 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 17 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 18 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 19 | There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted . |
| 20 | Brussels sprouts , baked potatoes , grated cheese , the variation of vegetables in the summer , a tin of vegetarian steak pudding on Sundays and a piece of fruit afterwards is a monotonous but healthy diet , and I ca n't think of many cheaper ways to feed two children and feel you 're doing your best for them at the same time . |
| 21 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 22 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 23 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It would mean a longer walk for them round the northward coil of the river , but that was a small matter once they were out of the town . |
| 26 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 27 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 28 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 29 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 30 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |