Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 3 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 4 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 5 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 6 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 9 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 10 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 11 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 12 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 13 | After that she tried even harder and now , at last , she really is off them for good . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers . |
| 15 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 16 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 17 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 18 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 19 | We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly . |
| 20 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 21 | Look out for them at major department stores . |
| 22 | During the day , swallows hawk for them at low levels . |
| 23 | He will play for defending champions Kelburne tomorrow against DW Clydesdale and will be available to play for them at regular intervals throughout the second half of the season in addition to the finals of the European Club Championship in May . |
| 24 | It would control referrals to providers outside the district and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
| 25 | It would also control patient referrals to providers outside the district and would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
| 26 | It would control referrals to providers outside the District and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
| 27 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 28 | The key to the success of such releases , though , is always that you do not have to pay for them with significant amounts of guilt or regret the next morning . |
| 29 | At higher altitudes , swifts trawl for them with open beaks . |
| 30 | However , parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system . |