Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 2 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 3 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 4 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 5 | Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent . |
| 6 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 7 | Before describing each of the methods in greater detail , one further point can be made about them as a whole . |
| 8 | Well Mick it 's now stage two of the er Anglo-Italian Cup , it 's Pisa tonight , er do you know anything about them as a team ? |
| 9 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 10 | From time to time the Libyan police and armed forces have appeared in these accounts of Zuwaya politics , and it may be helpful now to say something about them in a more collected way . |
| 11 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 12 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 13 | I read about them in a book , ’ she said . |
| 14 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 15 | For instance , if you are going to be discussing inner city problems , speaking about them from a beautiful stately home deep in the heart of the countryside lessens the impact somewhat ! |
| 16 | Crystal Palace , meanwhile , have the look of relegation about them after a Richard Shaw own goal and the dismissal of Lee Sinnott summed up their day . |
| 17 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 18 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 19 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 20 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 21 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 22 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 23 | When we emerged we found the neighbours still standing around discussing what had happened , but Mum just pushed her way through them without a word . |
| 24 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 25 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 26 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 27 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 28 | He was crouching amidst the emptied-out debris of her possessions , sorting through them with a patience that was deceptively gentle . |
| 29 | If so , chop through them with a small cold chisel . |
| 30 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |