Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Soros was dubbed ‘ the man who broke the pound ’ after speculating against it on Black Wednesday when Britain left the ERM . |
| 2 | Soros , 62 , was dubbed ‘ the man who broke the pound ’ after speculating against it on Black Wednesday when Britain left the ERM . |
| 3 | After crouching by it for several minutes , sifting through the contents , he uttered a triumphant ‘ Aha ! ’ and pulled out a large framed photograph , from which he blew a cloud of dust before placing it on the desk and inviting Harry to look at it . |
| 4 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 5 | Walter is backed up by Graham Nicholson , who takes over in July after working with him for 18 months . |
| 6 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 7 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |
| 8 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 9 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 10 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 11 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 12 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 13 | No publisher thinks of looking at something like that normally , but I did n't want it to seem too daunting . |
| 14 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 15 | So I 'm inclined to sort of look at it under those , er , within those distances and is there any descent with er Mr 's analysis of his sectors , that they would fit within that er , those general distances ? |
| 16 | Did you think of going to anybody like that before you decided to do it yourself |
| 17 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 18 | So if your voice is quick , make sure you put in pauses , or find some other method of coping with it in that way . |
| 19 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 20 | I have had the dubious privilege over the years of debating with him on many occasions . |
| 21 | In addition to catching errors , object-oriented systems can shelter the user from the complexity of dealing with lots of different kinds of data . |
| 22 | Being human the problems they present are unique , the ways of responding to them in finite . |
| 23 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 24 | Ring Brian again and again for the relief of talking to someone in this Lucyless silent world , engaged , engaged , engaged . |
| 25 | Besides , wrote Goldberg , you have only to see where Brighton are placed in the League to wonder at the wisdom of associating with them in any capacity . |
| 26 | of thinking about it in those terms , that way along , along |
| 27 | As we have seen , metaphoric reversibility is figured in the text thematically as the condition of being suspended between ideologies , languages and countries , or as the act of crossing from one to another . |
| 28 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 29 | As we saw above , it is based on the process of linking together multimedia data elements and allowing users different options for getting from one to another . |
| 30 | Her heart gave a little lurch as she thought about running into him at some time , which she was bound to do . |