Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 2 | and had you of gone to the wrong company , right |
| 3 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
| 4 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 5 | MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting . |
| 6 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 7 | As my wife , my family and I have had a taste of the suffering that Beck can impose on innocent people , will the Minister join me in sending to the real sufferers , the individuals who endured Beck 's homes and whose lives have been wrecked at his hands , the profound sympathy of us all ? |
| 8 | Castlereagh is not notorious , and most people in Northern Ireland will join me in objecting to the hon. Gentleman 's use of that word . |
| 9 | I won enough money in Sweden to at least get a category for the Challenge Tour next year and the experience will help me in qualifying for the European Tour . |
| 10 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 11 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 12 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 13 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 14 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 15 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 16 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |
| 17 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 18 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 19 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 20 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 21 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 22 | He diagnosed that his concentration on getting to know the clergy and the church people prevented him from moving among the wider community as he should . |
| 23 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 24 | Her father , a Swansea lawyer , discouraged her from going into the legal profession because he thought she would get too emotionally involved in her cases . |
| 25 | Thomas ' father , a Swansea lawyer , discouraged her from going into the legal profession because he thought she would get too involved in her cases . |
| 26 | The service section also involved her in caring for the elderly and paediatrics . |
| 27 | Are they in mourning for the first-class service ? |
| 28 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 29 | He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it . |
| 30 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |