Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 2 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 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 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Having dedicated so much energy to his love of Shakespeare , Berlioz wrote his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing with a careful sense of how much speech should surround the musical numbers . |
| 11 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 12 | He sees the cost of effective management training as nothing against the true cost of incompetent management . |
| 13 | As socialists we would demand decent and secure housing for everyone at a reasonable cost , but the difficulty arises when we consider what we can demand specifically as women without simply constructing an alternative women 's culture or further reinforcing women 's place in the home . |
| 14 | These would provide accident and emergency service for everyone at a given sum per year and meet certain quality criteria . |
| 15 | It finds a place for everyone within the divine purpose , regardless of their background , status or gender . |
| 16 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 17 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 18 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 19 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 23 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 24 | He sorted through them in a numb panic . |
| 25 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 26 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 30 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |