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 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 4 | MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Castlereagh is not notorious , and most people in Northern Ireland will join me in objecting to the hon. Gentleman 's use of that word . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 13 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |
| 14 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thomas ' father , a Swansea lawyer , discouraged her from going into the legal profession because he thought she would get too involved in her cases . |
| 19 | The service section also involved her in caring for the elderly and paediatrics . |
| 20 | Are they in mourning for the first-class service ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it . |
| 23 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 24 | Her attendants pay homage before entertaining her by dancing round the small maypole set up for the purpose . |
| 25 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 26 | The open aspect of the village , positioned to enjoy day-long sunshine and spared the dominance of high mountains , suggests a calm and friendly environment , especially appreciated upon reaching it after travelling through the exciting scenery of the Highlands . |
| 27 | What was it like working with the late John Huston ? |
| 28 | Fair enough , so what was it like working with the big guy ? |
| 29 | In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply . |
| 30 | In this assessment of an explanation the writer has disagreed with the main proposition and supported it by looking at the Liberal and Labour parties separately , and secondly at the other factors making for Liberal decline . |