Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 9 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 10 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 11 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 14 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 15 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 16 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 19 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 20 | He sorted through them in a numb panic . |
| 21 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 22 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 23 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 24 | It was the Guga Hunters who had chartered Viking to land the men and supplies ' on Sula Sgeir and return for them at a specified date . |
| 25 | The take or place booking means that the client will be offered a room if there has been a ‘ no show ’ or cancellation , and failing that accommodation will be found for them at a comparable hotel , usually within the same chain of hotels . |
| 26 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 30 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |