Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He even asked me about them up at the manor .
2 In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills .
3 So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed .
4 Aha , mhm , the job 's got to be there for them up till twenty six weeks I think .
5 Mr Hartling 's predecessor , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , avoided such pitfalls by simply chartering private jets and paying for them out of his not inconsiderable private coffers .
6 ‘ After all , you would be paying for them out of your own pocket .
7 The new consumer durables ( TV , washing machines , refrigerators ) were much in demand , and it made sound economic sense to enjoy the use and benefit of such things at once and pay for them out of rising real incomes .
8 Most people old enough to be expected to pay for them out of their own pockets regard the price of games cartridges as outrageous , but Nintendo Co is raising the prices of new software titles sold in the US by roughly 20% to offset the impact of Japan 's ever-rising yen .
9 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death .
10 Each had photographs and memories that they longed to share with their families who were waiting for them back at Heathrow .
11 ‘ We lost some very promising dogs because owners asked for them back after a fortnight , ’ explained the spokesman .
12 They could raise between them up to ten thousand men in that great remote province ; and at the same time assail the western Douglas strength .
13 I think I 'll stick with Lulu — I 'm not superstitious but it 's been so good for me up until now that I 'm not going to throw it away .
14 I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire .
15 Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness .
16 but they did very , they did marvellous things for me down in in Dundee
17 For me back to basics is how I find most of the time to run my own life , which is there are two teams and on the one hand there 's compassion , integrity and courage
18 ‘ Wait for me back at the TARDIS . ’
19 That — that man had me fired from that very first job , the one you organised for me back in South Africa when I left school ! ’
20 A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’
21 The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills .
22 He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts .
23 He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands .
24 This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany .
25 Ben Hesketh had clearly done well for himself out of his antiques business .
26 It seemed , in fact , that Cecil 's house belonged to my father , who made a cave for himself out of its damp and its wood , the sweet musk of its corners .
27 Phil Silvers had made an institution for himself out of the rank of an army sergeant .
28 A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left .
29 I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night .
30 A more commonly cited figure , however , was of total casualties of 100,000 , of whom up to 35,000 might have been killed .
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