Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he told his bosses in London who have now provided him with round-the-clock protection for fear he could be in the sights of an IRA killer gang . |
| 2 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
| 3 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 4 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 5 | Once the inner city is defined as a suitable case for treatment it becomes the logical social laboratory for any and all political , economic and social projects which can be presented as palliatives for the urban crisis . |
| 6 | When the local excise officers , oppressed by smugglers and low pay , persuaded him to present their case for improvement he was dismissed and left for America . |
| 7 | If this all seems like another blow for bureaucracy it is not intended to be so . |
| 8 | Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit . |
| 9 | Since registration is only compulsory on a purchase for value it is n't necessary to register the devolution of unregistered property on a death . |
| 10 | In two respective court cases , Stamford was recognised as the owner of the huge work , and Hoelzer was guaranteed payment for restoration he claimed to have done . |
| 11 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 12 | Berowne almost seems to revel in his own discomfiture here , in his desperate last stand for freedom -he clearly enjoys the sensation of falling in love , even though he presents the experience as a disaster ! |
| 13 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 14 | In the European Parliament for example we do have a nursery we have child-care facilities for seventy children which you do n't have in the House of Commons . |
| 15 | As local Sports Development Groups and Plans can represent a significant source of support for sport I do hope that your organisation will be represented at this meeting . |
| 16 | When they are given a chance to take a big decision about reform they tend to make the right — meaning the most reformist — decision . |
| 17 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 18 | In any fight for Kirsty he would definitely have the edge . |
| 19 | Gaybours everybody needs a gaybour get some money for petrol I 'll be round the town later on |
| 20 | We can make laws and regulations about pollution or wildlife trade until we are blue in the face , but without enough money for enforcement they will not be effective . |
| 21 | It was ironic that now everybody in our district had plenty of money for food they could n't obtain it because everything was rationed . |
| 22 | One amusing thing was that after all my worry about dress it turned out I was the overdressed character for everyday he wore a different combination of tee shirt and jeans while I wore my neat school uniform . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's some play about love he was in . |
| 24 | Towel dry your hair after shampoo it and spray a golf-ball size blob of Mousse onto your hands . |
| 25 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 26 | An hour after noon he wandered out of the room he shared with Bessie 's children and went into the kitchen , where he splashed water on his face . |
| 27 | It was held that where an absolute owner brings an action for trespass he must prove title and an intention to regain possession . |
| 28 | So when choosing a card for tuck you should not be able to count more than four blanks vertically anywhere on the card . |
| 29 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 30 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |