Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 2 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 3 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 4 | She knew nothing about him beyond the fact that he was immensely wealthy , the owner of the London-based Silver Star Navigation who for some strange reason had branched out into the fashion industry . |
| 5 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 6 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 7 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 8 | There 's nothing about it in the manifesto . |
| 9 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 10 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 11 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 12 | ‘ He reminded me about it in the dressing room before the game , and if it 's said you 're not playing with enough desire you 've just got to swallow it and do the best you can . |
| 13 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 15 | The loamy bat-dung crawled with poisonous six-inch millipedes , and at one point we automatically prostrated ourselves amongst them as a horde of disturbed bats swept towards us to escape . |
| 16 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 17 | You need someone with you for a while . ’ |
| 18 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 19 | Very well , convey my congratulations to General Froebe — I 'm sure he 'll be anxious to convey his to me for the sake of protocol . ’ |
| 20 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought nothing of it at the time , because my knee has straightened after five minutes in the past . |
| 22 | The Captain , not having the names readily to mind , dropped the matter and chuckled to himself about it for a week . |
| 23 | Almighty God , our heavenly Father , infinite in wisdom , love and power : have compassion on those for whom we pray ; and help us to use all suffering in the cause of your kingdom , through him who gave himself for us on the cross , Jesus Christ , Your Son and our Lord , |
| 24 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 25 | The thing that 's nice about being a housewife is you have your own time — there 's nobody behind you with a punch card … |
| 26 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 27 | The day after Myeni 's warning , Buthelezi distanced himself from it in a statement denying that any decision had been taken to deploy fighters . |
| 28 | He clutched at her and wound himself round her like an octopus , or like ivy , his cold feet in her stomach . |
| 29 | The great novelist , here writing as a criminologist , was evidently seeking to describe a social accompaniment of the transition to a capitalist mode of production , which to him as a magistrate was most evident as a problem of order . |
| 30 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |