Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 2 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 3 | For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home . |
| 4 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 5 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 6 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 7 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 8 | Lloyd has ‘ discovered ’ for them a magnificent location in the shape of the old ‘ boat-houses ’ along the Embankment . |
| 9 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 10 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 11 | For them the skilful use of mass media may be important , and key contacts in positions of power will be a great help . |
| 12 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 13 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 14 | For them the whole range of feelings of shock , disbelief and anger come into play . |
| 15 | For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist . |
| 16 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 17 | 1.3. a Although only 58 institutions provided the full questionnaire , they taught between them a large number of courses . |
| 18 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 19 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 20 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 21 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 22 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 23 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 24 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 25 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 26 | There remains for me a disturbing element about In Memoriam notices . |
| 27 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 28 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 29 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 30 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |