Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 2 | ( 9 ) The number of shares offered for ( when aggregated with the existing holdings of shares and rights over shares of the buyer and persons acting by agreement or understanding with him within the meaning of the SARs ) must not amount to 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of the company . |
| 3 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 4 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 5 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 6 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 7 | ‘ shall be unenforceable against the other party [ i.e. the investor ] ; and that party shall be entitled to recover any money or other property paid or transferred by him under the agreement , together with compensation for any loss sustained by him as a result of having parted with it . |
| 8 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 9 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 10 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 11 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 12 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 13 | Knowing as much , my friends , who sit or stand with me under the tree , stare out to sea in silence . |
| 14 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 15 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 16 | To win , you must throw your opponent , ideally on his back ; or dispose of him on the ground with an armlock , strangle or 30 second hold . |
| 17 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 18 | For further information on LCCI Retail awards please contact or write to her at the address below . |
| 19 | For further information on these awards contact or write to her at the address below . |
| 20 | For further details on this scheme including performance criteria , assessment requirements and how to register , please contact or write to him at the address below . |
| 21 | And he said , Well what would you prefer , go to school quietly or come with me over the hedge to have a spanking . |
| 22 | One of the details of the New Festspielhaus in Salzburg that people like to gossip about was the fact that the orchestra pit could be raised or lowered by you at the touch of a button . |
| 23 | ‘ The goods which form the subject of a contract of sale may be either existing goods , owned or possessed by the seller , or goods to be manufactured or acquired by him after the making of the contract of sale , in this Act called ‘ future goods . ’ ’ |
| 24 | The United States ' Constitution includes the clause ( in the Tenth Amendment ) that ‘ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the people ’ . |
| 25 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised . |
| 27 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 28 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 29 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
| 30 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |