Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She insisted quietly on halving the bill and he let her have her way , not wanting to jeopardize his chance of eating with her in the future . |
| 2 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 3 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 4 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 5 | Mrs Brown has been lobbying her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd for help , even to the extent of standing against him in the recent general election . |
| 6 | I am even scared of bumping into him in the street . |
| 7 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 8 | For example , you could reward a child for staying with you in the supermarket by buying a small treat as you leave . |
| 9 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 10 | Paragraph at the same time can you inform me if , apart from your national list trials , do you have a recommended list similar to that operating in the United Kingdom , question mark , paragraph , as far as the agricultural seeds are concerned I take it that you operate a distinctness , comma , uniformity and stability trial as well as the value for cultivation and usage trial , question mark paragraph , can you inform me how long your official trials last , and what weights of seeds are required for these trials paragraph , I look forward to hearing from you in the near future , kindest regards , yours sincerely |
| 11 | ‘ You told me off once , ’ said Gazzer , ‘ for bumping into you in the corridors . ’ |
| 12 | She told me she worried about working with him in the show . |