Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To his list we could add attorneys and even local receivers of taxes , six of whom appear in a list of country bankers drawn up in 1784 .
2 Just last week a survey by Brook Advisory Centres revealed an estimated 84,000 15 year old girls are sexually active , yet just 18,000 of them go to a family planning clinic .
3 if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ?
4 Watching one of them wobble through a developpe in glazed desperation or another sickle his foot in an over-extended arabesque , you feel how cruelly Hall 's ambitions tax his company .
5 The Bill also imposes an automatic one-year driving ban , but I can not help wondering how many young people will be deterred by that — particularly as many of them drive without a licence anyway .
6 At once the two of them fall into a kind of trance .
7 Why did one of them look like a man who had supposedly been dead for over two hundred years ?
8 ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework .
9 Then the three of them talk to a radio interviewer from The Coca-Cola Euro Chart Hot 100 show .
10 A change of home help , a fall , or a recent bereavement might any of them result in a sense of not being able to cope , and thus to a referral .
11 The two of them live in a house near the docks .
12 Some of them work for a number of different organisations , and some of this sub-group operate via specialist employment agencies , which act as intermediaries between them and the user organisation .
13 Equally complicated are the Lamento di Zelemi , turca ( ‘ Con occhi belli e fieri ’ ) in 13 sections , four of which consist of an aria repeated as a ritornello , and ‘ Hor che notte guerriera ’ for two sopranos and tenor ( representing Fortuna , Amore , and Amante ) , and two violins ; the latter includes three recitatives , two arias , a duet , and two terzetti as well as three instrumental sinfonie .
14 I 'm to stand in a huge foil-wrapped box , the sides of which collapse in a puff of smoke at the touch of a remote control button held by Jim .
15 Meanwhile , in your spare time you can write out recipes for a new-angle celebrity cookbook , some of the proceeds of which go to a cause so worthy it makes your eyelids retract .
16 In the second instance , in spite of the presence of the intercalating chromophore and linker chain , both of which lead to an increase in binding site size , the blockages induced by the tethered complexes are broadly similar to those caused by cisplatin , 7 , PtenCl 2 , 1 , and PtpropCl 2 , 4 as most high intensity blockages occurred at runs of two or more G's on the template strand .
17 What is needed in this case is a single figure that gives an indication of which package as a whole is best value .
18 Just out of curiosity , did any of you join as a result of the article in TSB ?
19 ‘ What can a piece of mine do for an audience that has really come to enjoy one of the great operatic masterpieces of all time ? ’ asks Jonathan Dove .
20 Some of us suffer from an aversion to talking about money — known as remuneraphobia .
21 Er all of us go to a shop of some sort pretty well every day .
22 Not the type to talk if too many of us arrive like a delegation .
23 The good care there 's one other thing that we talked briefly about in the signs and symptoms and what happened that you could check for you look at a baby , what else do you do ?
24 and not go through you know in a while you 'll go through and not stay there
25 Traveller Victoria Cooper said : ‘ The smell was awful — just like you get from a gas cooker .
26 I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it .
27 ‘ How about we go for a bite to eat somewhere ? ’
28 Most people involved with them belong to a cult that Speaks a language few of us understand .
29 Do not let the client 's refusal to agree with you degenerate into an argument .
30 Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else
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