Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war public appeals had raised sufficient money to keep Youth Allyah afloat , but , when it became clear that large numbers of children would not soon be leaving for Palestine , the question arose as to who would care for them during their prolonged stay in Britain . |
| 2 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |
| 3 | I WOULD like to thank everyone for their tremendous efforts in selling draw tickets this year . |
| 4 | Thank you again everyone for your individual efforts last year . |
| 5 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 6 | Though applicants had to demonstrate financial soundness and programming ability , they paid nothing for their regional monopolies , which guaranteed them a share of the £1 billion-plus ( $1.95 billion ) of television advertising sold in Britain each year . |
| 7 | It is interesting that he talks of people getting nothing for their additional contributions in the very week when the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) writes an article in a magazine in praise of the contributory principle — indeed , in praise of Beveridge in this the 50th anniversary of his excellent proposals . |
| 8 | The faint aroma of stale mackerel still hung around and did nothing for our personal charisma either . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a figment of the imagination by those who want to dominate ITV , who care nothing for our regional character and who seek to shift control of our operations from Cardiff and Bristol to London or Birmingham . |
| 10 | Long , unkempt hair , several missing teeth , and a nose that looked as if it had met more than one fist in its owner 's lifetime did nothing for his general appearance . |
| 11 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 12 | I am retracing the footsteps of the lost expedition , tracking them through their abandoned log from one wrong compass bearing to the next . |
| 13 | And to help them through their carbon-copy situation , they are also studying ways in which they can emulate our enterprise challenge . |
| 14 | On the other hand , requiring the child to reproduce phrases and sentences may lead to a lower level of performance as the child seeks to make sense of the adult constructions and in doing so reinterprets them through her own emerging system of grammatical rules . |
| 15 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 16 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |
| 17 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 18 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |
| 19 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 20 | Do not ask me for its modern systematic name ! |
| 21 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 22 | There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist . |
| 23 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 24 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 25 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 26 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 28 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 29 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 30 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |