Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards res as my friend put it in opening , |
| 2 | She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stella tries to look after her sister showering her with compliements to try to get Stanley to ‘ understand her and be nice to her . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The inquisition post mortem held after his death shows him in possession of lands worth over £60 a year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Theda waited for her visitor to compose herself before speaking . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 21 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 22 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 23 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 24 | Hell , I 'd spent most of my life dedicating myself to my work . ’ |
| 25 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 26 | And the full awfulness of my landing hit me in a rush . |
| 27 | Like millions of Americans I was watching the debate on television and , like millions of Americans , I leapt out of my seat yelling something like : ‘ I ca n't believe he said that … |
| 28 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 29 | ‘ I consider it part of my job to know everything about everybody , ’ Mandy muttered abstractedly . |
| 30 | ‘ I was trying to get hold of their coach to stop him from going back to Italy in a casket . |