Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was crouching amidst the emptied-out debris of her possessions , sorting through them with a patience that was deceptively gentle . |
| 2 | She had n't mentioned David Markham but his presence had hung between them like a spectre and his name had n't been mentioned since . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The united Germany and the Republic of Poland shall confirm the existing border between them in a treaty that is binding under international law . |
| 4 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 5 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 6 | If you are making the cake for someone with a pony or with a favourite horse character in a book , make the ponies in the stable in their appropriate colours , and pipe the names over the doors . |
| 7 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ran after them like a demon and I 'd do it again , ’ Iris said yesterday . |
| 9 | Of course this is where a mountain bike could come in handy , but you 'd have to put up with walkers pointing at you and shouting ‘ tosser ’ , and landowners chasing after you with a stick as another slice of expensive path slides into the burn after being cut neatly away by fat tyres . |
| 10 | Samuel Beeton had already begun to make a name for himself as a publisher and editor . |
| 11 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 12 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 13 | Or else he is able to interpose a living screen between himself as a sinner and God the holy One . |
| 14 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 15 | Well , I do n't actually know if he 's proud of my work , but he 's certainly proud of me as a person if that makes any sense . ’ |
| 16 | because landlords were seen as progressive and they might want , they di the erm communists did n't want to get rid of them as a class but in their feudal capacity . |
| 17 | Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer . |
| 18 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 19 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 20 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 21 | Carrie saw a big bowl of them on a table and then their reflection — and hers — in what seemed hundreds of mirrors . |
| 22 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 23 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 24 | There are more than twenty circuses currently touring Britain , most of them without an elephant or a tiger in sight . |
| 25 | She mothered all of them in a way that Jennie could not now she was becoming more erratic . |
| 26 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
| 27 | In the nearby village of Tashlak about 200 youths armed with weapons and incendiary devices , ‘ many of them in an alcoholic or narcotic stupor ’ , destroyed over 400 houses and motor vehicles as well as several public buildings . |
| 28 | It was the lack of physical strength and heart shown by certain Spurs defenders as Villa swept past them like a claret and blue tidal wave . |
| 29 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 30 | one of his in a set and he says |