Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 2 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 3 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 4 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 5 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 6 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 7 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 8 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 9 | of times kissed her on the arse |
| 10 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 11 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 12 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 13 | Injuries permitting , he should finish this season approaching 600 career games — with a tally of goals putting him among the 300-plus elite . |
| 14 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 15 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 16 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 17 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 18 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 19 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 20 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 21 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 22 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 23 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 24 | Fun-filled Faliraki is only a 20–25 minute walk away but there is a public bus service which departs from outside the hotel , and lots of taxis to whisk you to the beach and Faliraki centre . |
| 25 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 26 | This solid , reliable book has a number of features to recommend it as a starting point in the discovery of Picasso , not least the interesting thematic chronological charts which cover topics such as ‘ Stages in the discovery and appropriation of primitivism ’ e.g. ‘ Autumn 1906 , Derain and Matisse return to Paris , each having acquired his first African mask ’ , and ‘ Stages of the revolution in papier colles ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Her move , she said , was in no way caused by the spate of allegations linking her to the murders of the township activist Stompie Moeketsi and the Soweto physician Dr Abu-Baker Asvat and to other possible charges of kidnap , assault and theft . |
| 29 | Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture : |
| 30 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |