Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few poor sticks that Albert had collected over the years were fit for nothing but firewood . |
| 2 | ‘ Put it this way … the fans can go to see a good fight between me and Razor Ruddock at Earls Court on October 31 — or they can go to see Bruno win on a cut against Coetzer . ’ |
| 3 | But a strong feeling persisted , when I swung my feet off the ground and lay back , that something was trying to slip between me and reality . |
| 4 | The operation of the mythic DNA affects not only Shakespeare 's plots but contemporary history as he interpreted it ; so chaste women wronged by their boar-driven husbands include not only such fictional figures as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and Imogen in Cymbeline , but also Katherine of Aragon ( in Henry VIII ) . |
| 5 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 6 | It 's a double , double-barrelled name when you talk about me and cherub . |
| 7 | About me and Dad to be precise . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She cares about me and Dad more than anyone else in the world . |
| 9 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be so much healthier for them than city streets . ’ |
| 11 | And would had to make food for them and stuff like that ? |
| 12 | They needed some relative to vouch for them and documentary proof of identity . |
| 13 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 14 | Sympathy though was maintained for birth parents who through no ‘ fault ’ of their own ( for example , chronic mental illness ) were unable to care for them or visit . |
| 15 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 16 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 17 | They know that trade unions could be mediators between them and management , but they do not give them authority . |
| 18 | Lockwood believes that the division of the clerical workforce into smaller groups with specialized roles leads to closer contacts and greater cooperation between them and management . |
| 19 | There are many theories of personality but the relationship between them and performance is difficult to establish despite the numerous personality trait tests on the market and their huge databanks . |
| 20 | The office , based at 5 Park Place , Cardiff , will serve to promote the interests of Welsh solicitors and to improve liaison between them and Law Society headquarters . |
| 21 | If one takes everything into account — the shifts in climate which might well remove the United States from its place as the leading ‘ food power ’ and affect the Soviet Union as well , the limited prospects for increased yields , desertification and the steady increase in the global population — it is clear that in the next century large sections of the world 's population will have a very narrow margin between them and starvation . |
| 22 | Men do so dislike women who stand between them and drink . |
| 23 | The Springboks ' biggest problem is easy to spot — the other 13 have only 34 between them and tighthead prop Keith Andrews and openside flanker Frederik Smit will make their debuts . |
| 24 | How far it is sensible to smooth over the differences between religions , and between them and psychoanalysis , in this way is debatable , for it too much lessens the advances made by Freud in the understanding of religion . |
| 25 | Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment . |
| 26 | To insist on denying the reality of such causes is to draw a bizarrely hard line between the physical and the mental aspects of a human being — a line which does seem sometimes to be drawn in the social sciences , and may prove handy in academic feuds between them and biology , but which seems very badly suited to the realistic description of our lives . |
| 27 | A kiss between them and death to follow . |
| 28 | Whether or not such factors develop religious awareness depends on the degree to which people can see a relationship between them and religion and can tease out the implications . |
| 29 | Brought up on those bright flickering images of violence , could he distinguish between them and reality , she wondered . |
| 30 | The skilled thinker has an extraordinary facility not only to develop varieties of abstract models but also to switch rapidly between them and between them and reality . |