Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 2 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
| 3 | Anita Saada had children of similar ages to Laura 's and was to become a staunch source of support to her over the years . |
| 4 | There is some provision made within the law for copying a work of part of it without the need to obtain permission . |
| 5 | The man in charge at Chelsea at the moment , David Webb , is on probation and it is unlikely his chairman , the fiery Ken Bates , would release such a sum of money to him during the trial period . |
| 6 | Though his tone was abrupt , Polly sensed a lessening of tension in him at the change of subject . |
| 7 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
| 8 | And we had to move all them , there were a lot of hooha about it in the paper about what , a year ago ? |
| 9 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 10 | The other result is a lot of prejudice against them in the city . |
| 11 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 12 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 13 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 14 | Treachery is unlikely , but the decision not to attack the Scottish camp , and not to pursue the Scots when they broke camp , suggests at the very least a lack of confidence and judgement amongst the English commanders , and there is some evidence of disagreement amongst them about the tactics they should adopt . |
| 15 | Ainscow and Tweddle ( 1979 ) state the problem : " Slow learners often develop a poor opinion of themselves , lose confidence and bring an expectation of failure with them into the classroom . " |
| 16 | Purchasers may need to be reminded that a loss of confidence in them by the vendors can be difficult to recover and will adversely affect relationships after completion . |
| 17 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 18 | Crilly has gone and there is a sheet of cardboard beside me on the pillow . |
| 19 | I am sorry The Mozartean Players omit the repeat in the first movement of K542 , which is one of Mozart 's best Trios ' especially since there is plenty of room for it on the disc . |
| 20 | The age-old method of casting bells was to make a clay mould of the inside shape of the bell , then build up a layer of beeswax round it to the shape and thickness of the finished bell . |
| 21 | As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant . |
| 22 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 23 | Their bed had a wooden footboard and she saw a flicker of movement behind it in the half-light . |
| 24 | It can be seen from this that although David Barclay senior was not ‘ the founder of Barclays Bank ’ as he has sometimes been named , his sons James , David , and John were important early partners in the bank , and the mercantile fortune he had built up an important source of capital for it from the 1770s . |
| 25 | The long , low island of Lismore away to the east was Campbell ground , and the great fortress of Dunstaffnage out of sight beyond it on the mainland . |
| 26 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 27 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 28 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 29 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 30 | There was a roll of film in it by the way , did they tell you ? |