Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 32 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 33 | But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn . |
| 34 | However , there are several Mira variables which can be found with binoculars when near maximum , and can even show some colour ; I have given notes about them in the pages which follow , but it is rather pointless to go into detail , because long-period variables are the province of the telescopic observer , and estimates made with binoculars are inevitably rough . |
| 35 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 36 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 37 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 38 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 39 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 40 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 41 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 42 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 43 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 44 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 45 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 46 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 47 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 48 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 49 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 50 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |
| 51 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 52 | ‘ I hope you get bloody herpes , ’ she shouted — rather an old-fashioned shout in Oxford in 1988 , when the younger dons were talking about nothing but the case of AIDS in Merton . |
| 53 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 54 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 55 | He sees the cost of effective management training as nothing against the true cost of incompetent management . |
| 56 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 57 | She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours . |
| 58 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 59 | are there for everyone with the disease and other blood disorders , and they always need helpers . |
| 60 | ‘ But now is the time for everyone with the club at heart to rally round . |