Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 2 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 3 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 4 | She was attacked after asking him to move from the touchline during an amateur game at Gillingham , Kent . |
| 5 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 6 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 7 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 8 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 9 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 10 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 11 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 12 | Horowitz was an Israeli government spokesman , a middle-aged man with an angry , almost bitter way of explaining what happened to the Arabs of the old Palestine mandate . |
| 13 | The hidden costs of being in hospital — lost income , the cost of employing someone to look after the children , the cost of having someone to look after the home if your partner works , even your partner 's lost income — can soon add up to become a severe financial burden during an already difficult time . |
| 14 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 15 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 16 | Scattered about was exactly the sort of clutter you found in the parish church : holy pictures of saints , missals , rosaries , little bottles of holy water . |
| 17 | Whichever of these six defences in section 4 is raised , the burden of establishing it rests upon the defendant . |
| 18 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 19 | He was our , he was our squadron but not our troop you see , see if I 'd a been his troop he probably would n't of made me go into the sea , but it was fucking cold , I mean , I mean full M B C kit right |
| 20 | They suggested that the repeated occurrence of similar losses might increase the likelihood of believing oneself to blame for the event . |
| 21 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 22 | If , as Marland ( 1981 ) suggests , schools should develop new integrated subjects they will be faced with the task of getting them approved by the Secondary Examinations Council under the National Criteria for the various conventional subjects . |
| 23 | Marriages of persons over that age , but under 18 , are completely valid ; and the only check on such marriages without the consent of parents or guardians is the difficulty of getting them celebrated by the clergyman or proper officer without making a false declaration , which involves penal consequences . |
| 24 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 25 | Quite possibly the ulterior motive was to convince the EEC states of the virtues of EFTA 's low tariffs , with the end objective of persuading them to return to the conference table to negotiate a multilateral trading agreement that would hold the two parts of Western Europe together . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 27 | Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls . |
| 28 | This incident , despite having nothing to do with the operation of tribunals led to the establishment in 1955 of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals and Enquiries under the chairmanship of Sir Oliver Franks ( as he then was ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The unit assures us that the decision to have frozen meals delivered to disabled and elderly people , instead of having them prepared in the person 's house by a home help , is not a money saving measure , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Anyone who after time purchases goods from the defendant therefore runs the risk of having them seized by the sheriff . |