Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find it helpful to make a chart about her like the one below . |
| 2 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I kept a lookout for you on the ship . |
| 4 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 5 | For some reason , William sought to get rid of Adelizia and he began a case against her in the church courts which ended in a declaration by Pope Innocent II that his first contractual marriage was binding . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 7 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 8 | On the subject of the draft union treaty , Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country . |
| 9 | On one occasion my father sent a runner to him in the Danakil country with an important letter . |
| 10 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 12 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 13 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 14 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 16 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 17 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 18 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 19 | A tower over ten feet tall took only thirty seconds , and he would leave a trail of them around the passageways in his more creative moods . |
| 20 | It stands on the site of Wedgwood 's first factory , and has a statue of him over the porch , as well as a series of elaborate reliefs and friezes . |
| 21 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 22 | Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown , and there is a statue of him in the town 's memorial park . |
| 23 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 24 | I left a sack of them behind the shed there , forgot all about them . |
| 25 | I think there might be a parcel for you at the door is it ? |
| 26 | But the servant returned with a wineskin , and at a signal poured a liquor from it into the horn vessels . |
| 27 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 28 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 29 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 30 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |