Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 2 | And this application of standard formula upset Selby for reasons we heard this morning , and it upsel =set us because it did n't seem to be taking the real situation into account . |
| 3 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 4 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 5 | The male does sometimes mate with one of the young female helpers but this , for reasons we do not understand , never seems to result in pregnancy . |
| 6 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 7 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 8 | I suspected there was a mystery behind his banal description of a parchment-seller born and raised at Nantes in Brittany ; a stationer who knew how to work the new presses from Gutenberg and , for reasons he kept to himself , had moved both his family and business to England . |
| 9 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 10 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 11 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 12 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 13 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 14 | In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy . |
| 15 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 16 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 17 | Her mother had her full permission to tell him so , for reasons she had bitterly and eloquently specified . |
| 18 | Herzen observed a " sharp and remarkable " difference between essays he received from Russia in 1856 and those that had arrived in 1855 . |
| 19 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 20 | Well in that case how about on method point 1 suggestions for improvements we need the word 'two procedures'. yes yes suggestions for improvements yes suggested to for improvements to procedures . |
| 21 | No , thinking about it seriously it would be better to go up there , have a swifty through patterns you know , you need a bit of time |
| 22 | For hours we searched the forests on the western slopes — nothing . |
| 23 | Then for hours we gutted the living , flapping fish and threw them into baskets to be carried below and put on ice . |
| 24 | He had also taken to haunting the Holborn offices of The Little Magazine : for hours he sat crouched in the coffee bars and sandwich nooks opposite , with the unsettled intention of springing out at Sixsmith — if he ever say him , which he never did . |
| 25 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 26 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 27 | For generations they have been led to believe that Britain and America secretly pull the strings in their country . |
| 28 | The ISD programming team also did their bit by charging colleagues in ISD for calls they made to the Helpdesk , raising around £2OO . |
| 29 | Well Derek 's been telling her for ages you see , to join the |
| 30 | Oh I have n't been to the cinema for ages it seems . |