Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 2 | This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you . |
| 3 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 4 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 5 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
| 6 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 7 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 8 | The mess on the ground in front of me came together as a man , and Daine — still dazed from his transformations , still pinned like a vampire butterfly — stared up in hatred . |
| 9 | Most of them looked forward to an administrative career in the service of a lord , whether pope , king , bishop or earl . |
| 10 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 11 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 12 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 13 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 14 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 15 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 16 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 17 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 18 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 19 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 20 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 21 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 22 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |
| 23 | " You can ask one or two of them to stay behind for a drink , if you like , " Laura said , " if there 's anyone possible . " |
| 24 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 25 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 26 | That 's fixed but some some of them started off with a a fo a double sided piece of paper which is thrown away with the rest of the garbage that people keep in their houses . |
| 27 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 28 | I stay a few feet behind , watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old 's pace . |
| 29 | Er there 's none of them left now except an old M Mrs in who is over a hundred . |
| 30 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |