Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 2 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 3 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 4 | Neither of them conforms to the default format , but they both work . |
| 5 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 6 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 7 | This is shown by the judgment of Lord Greene in Saltman where he said : " If two parties make a contract under which one of them obtains for the purpose of the contract or in connection with it some confidential matter , even though the contract is silent on the matter of confidence the law will imply an obligation to treat that confidential matter in a confidential way as one of the implied terms of the contract ; but the obligation of confidence is not limited to cases where the parties are in a contractual relationship " . |
| 8 | His apparent rejection of her seems like the rejection of all mankind . |
| 9 | A niece of mine complains about the Revolution |
| 10 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 11 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 12 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 13 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 14 | The site is not in public ownership and any use of it depends on the agreement of the landowner , Mr Whewell . |
| 15 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 16 | This is limited because the light from the l.e.d. spreads out and only a fraction of it falls on the detector . |
| 17 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |
| 18 | Very little of it relates to the north and north-east , although Salvian does describe the sack of Trier . |
| 19 | erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample . |
| 20 | A manor house remains of the eastern hamlet , but the church of St Peter has been demolished ; part of it remains in the grounds of Castle Combe manor house nearby . |
| 21 | Inevitably , some of it escapes into the river . |
| 22 | Generally the rest of this phrase means that the offence is committed if the vehicle or part of it proceeds past the traffic lights on the left or nearside of the approaching vehicle . |
| 23 | But the saying of it cuts at the chains . |
| 24 | The greater part of it lies to the south of the confluence of the two rivers , which therefore split the town into three distinct parts . |
| 25 | Miss Cumbey 's work is a prophetic book and , as with all prophecy , the test of it lies in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ A lot of it comes through the Byrds , ’ reflects Bob ‘ and , though I was n't , like , a big fan of theirs , The Band . |
| 27 | He also makes the point that what evidence there is may be culture-bound , since most of it comes from the USA and possesses a dominant technological perspective . |
| 28 | Some of it comes from the Government , and some from the local authorities , but it 's been cut back . |
| 29 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 30 | This water is not only derived from the food that we eat and the fluid that we drink : much of it comes from the multitude of secretions which enter the gut lumen . |