Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 2 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 3 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 4 | To get rid of grit , strain them through kitchen paper in a sieve then pick mushrooms out individually . |
| 5 | The separated ions are converted back to atoms by passing them through lithium vapour , from which the ions easily pick up their missing electrons . |
| 6 | Although drummer Richie Hayward powered them through Blow Wind , Blow Wind , and the evergreen Key to the Highway , I began to think that Keith Richards ' X-Pensive Winos were a better band . |
| 7 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 8 | ‘ If we can keep them off council land it will make it nearly impossible for them . |
| 9 | Those very few who do receive enough child support to ‘ float ’ them off income support may nevertheless lose financially because of the consequent loss of passported benefits such as free school meals . |
| 10 | Because they told me that the assessment will be made by the Child Support Agency who would then pass it over to the Income Support Agency who would then take them off Income Support . |
| 11 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 12 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 13 | He used to come after me for music lesson every week , I can always |
| 14 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 15 | Did you imagine I 'd stand passively by while you used me for bayonet practice ? ’ |
| 16 | That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I could n't bear the thought of us going down with me as club captain and president . |
| 18 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 19 | But when I found John he knew nothing about car maintenance . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , though comprehensive on training , it said nothing about eye strain ! |
| 21 | PEOPLE use patents either as a valid legal weapon to block rival manufacture or as a bluff to put off rival manufacturers who know nothing about patent law and do not take legal advice from a patent agent . |
| 22 | If governments do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions , Wigley 's best guess for the resulting warming is around 1.5 to 3C by 2050 , which would cause a global sea-level rise of 4 to 6mm per year . |
| 23 | Also , both she and Clare Dodgson , chief executive of the family health services authority , worry that , despite the well attended meetings , there are still some general practitioners who know nothing about community care . |
| 24 | A manager may have to justify , perhaps to a director who knows nothing about shopfloor politics , a particular piece of new machinery . |
| 25 | It occurred to Edward that he knew little or nothing about rook behaviour . |
| 26 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 27 | Y you refer to them as mile stone inspectors . |
| 28 | SpreadBase provides users with a means of analysing structured data — as client-server environments have become more widespread , users have begun accessing corporate data on relational database servers , using them as decision support tools . |
| 29 | He spent 33 years as a parish councillor , 24 of them as parish council chairman . |
| 30 | Subsequently Gladys Hart joined them as Membership Secretary . |