Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 2 | to provide meetings which have about them a sense of mental , spiritual and emotional homecoming to them . |
| 3 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 4 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 5 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |
| 6 | I 'm discreetly handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Flavell — McDunn has the key — and we have a couple of burly plain-clothes men with us I strongly suspect are tooled up , but the pressure seems to be off me a bit . |
| 7 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 8 | You do care about me a bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ |
| 9 | Video can bring an assortment of people into the classroom and through them a range of issues . |
| 10 | The clouds parted and through them a beam of light fell on Sandweg church . |
| 11 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 12 | After a week of caring for them a bond had been formed . |
| 13 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
| 14 | Yet for them a description of the full circumstances of a misfortune or disaster is not sufficient in itself . |
| 15 | For them a progress of this kind might be acceptable , at least to some extent , in the army . |
| 16 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 17 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 18 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 19 | Rather it is for them a process of , existence that has to be daily achieved by individuals through work , that is through the individual mastery over emotions and the skills of wizardry . |
| 20 | For them a week in a tent is the same as six weeks . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe when they come to perform to each other that is for them a time for evaluation and assessment , and I consciously make it one , because it 's important when they produce , when they perform their music they really bare their souls . |
| 22 | He had taken her to lunch at La Noblesse where they had eaten cod in a watercress sauce and drunk between them a bottle of Chinon , Clos de l'Echo ‘ 86 . |
| 23 | Somewhere in the silence between them a telephone began its urgent , persistent ring . |
| 24 | There are , first , two basic rival metaphysical theories , mentalist and materialist , and between them a number of hybrid ontological positions , incorporating in various proportions elements from both these views . |
| 25 | And probably picking up another hundred pound hundred and twenty pound between them a week . |
| 26 | It was for me a phantom of literary delight ; a name , though less euphonious , almost as evocative as Samarkand , Trebizond or Persepolis . |
| 27 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 28 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 29 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 30 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |