Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an age when much more business is project-oriented when it is increasingly a case of throw it at the wall and see what sticks ( perhaps in the public sector they really wish they did n't have to be so careful with the dosh and could similarly try things out more just to see what might work ) , the role of the chief exec is to empower the team and keep informed of progress ( half a side of A4 and no hyperbole please ) . |
| 2 | Round the centre of rotation it to the spoke while she 's up the other spoke . |
| 3 | I suppose he 's got a bit of power her at the end because he makes her give the jewels back . |
| 4 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 5 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 6 | I went to post it in the index book I 've got it 's stopped it 's been in |
| 7 | Mind reading with hands on head You as the mind reader leave the room and the other people choose a number between one and ten . |
| 8 | Third , she claims to have authorisation from Mephistco to boot me off the assignment . |
| 9 | Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward . |
| 10 | Every so often the animal would rear , lashing out with his sharpened hooves , as the men struggled with a stream of oaths to back it into the stable . |
| 11 | To hold an anti-contraceptive view is one thing , but to enshrine it in the law of the land is another . |
| 12 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 13 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 14 | Kennedy immediately called together a special Executive Committee ( the " Ex Comm " ) to advice him on the handling of the crisis . |
| 15 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 16 | Sylvie Guillem , the exquisite prima ballerina , had been procured to dance for it ; chanteuses of international renown were to sing for it ; the Gypsy Kings would be there to serenade it at the top of their lungs . |
| 17 | Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’ |
| 18 | She found it very difficult to get out of bed , so we moved life to centre it in the bedroom . |
| 19 | Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to . |
| 20 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 21 | It might be diplomatic to humour him for the moment … |
| 22 | In my judgment , once it is recognised , as inevitably it must be , that a self-regulating organisation may have to act with urgency in order to achieve its purpose , then it would be undesirable to cumber it with the necessity to make a judgment as to whether time admits of an opportunity to make representations . |
| 23 | In my judgment , once it is recognised , as inevitably it must be , that a self-regulating organisation may have to act with urgency in order to achieve its purpose , then it would be undesirable to cumber it with the necessity to make a judgment as to whether time admits of an opportunity to make representations . |
| 24 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |
| 25 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 26 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |