Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 2 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 3 | Plugger promised to keep the pair for me until the day before I left so that they would have the shortest travelling time possible . |
| 4 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you make sketches of me through the spy-hole when I was undressing ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation . |
| 7 | Examples of the last of these are , consumption of the goods by the seller or a resale of them by the seller when he has no right to re-sell . |
| 8 | And if peptides really did code for memories , should there not be many more of them in the brain than one actually finds ? |
| 9 | There was probably more of you on the landing than there was |
| 10 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 11 | More of 'em on the beach than surfers in the water . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They have n't said officially , ’ Tracey said , ‘ but I called a mate of mine at the Yard as soon as I heard . |
| 13 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 14 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 15 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 16 | Matters can be most easily be sorted out for you on the spot whilst you are in resort , when your Representative , who is authorised to deal fully with any complaint , can see and understand the exact nature of any problems you have . |
| 17 | Sally sat down hard on them , forcing her legs together , but as usual in the end he won and she retrieved the panties from the floor , pushing them behind her on the seat before they were trampled underfoot . |
| 18 | Well I have to , I , I 'll have to have Elaine with me about the hat because er I prefer somebody else with me |
| 19 | ‘ They were so patient with me at the beginning until I understood English better ; they would ask one of the secretaries in Wales to type a letter if I could n't . |
| 20 | Erm she 's doing numeracy power with them at the moment before she gets on to the because I believe she 's got to sort out some programs for as yet . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been a special privilege to serve under you in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary and as the first Secretary of State for National Heritage . |
| 22 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 23 | She did not believe that she could bring Scathach back to life , but he could at least be with her in the fortress as she made her journey into the first forest , as she went in search of whatever it was that had ensnared Harry , made him a prisoner in Old Forbidden Place . |
| 24 | and somebody must try and get in touch with her in the evening if she 's not in . |
| 25 | This she took with her in the trap when she left to go to the market . |
| 26 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 27 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 28 | His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house . |
| 29 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 30 | Anyway , I have no access to it , and have to cart metres of black metal piping back from the town and sweat and labour over it , bending it and cutting it and boring it and crimping it and bending it again , straining with it in the vice until the bench and shed creak with my efforts . |