Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've now got to see if people like it enough for us to want to even think about building something like it . ’ |
| 2 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 3 | Yet for the past two years , Zara has had almost inseparable on-court support from coach Michael Ferguson , who she warmly credits for bringing her to her current level . |
| 4 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 7 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 8 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 9 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 10 | Belated thanks for a delicious buffet the other night and , more particularly , for including me in such a happy occasion . |
| 11 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 12 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 13 | The joint DES/DHSS nature of the Circular , the necessary involvement of health and social services professionals in the multi-professional assessment , and their part in providing for those with special educational needs , were apparently not seen as sufficient reason for including them in discussions . |
| 14 | Many of our residents have enjoyed the hospitality and entertainment courtesy of Matron Elder and on their behalf we should like to express our appreciation , and to thank all concerned for including us in their celebrations . |
| 15 | Turkey , plum pudding , Stilton … typical traditional fare , but from where did they originate and how did the custom for eating them at Christmas arise ? |
| 16 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 17 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 18 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 19 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 20 | The reserve , the indifference and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others . |
| 21 | Christians , especially , should be cautious about allowing themselves to be influenced by people who do not have the same life goals . |
| 22 | The remaining two men received sentences of nine months ( suspended for two years ) for allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle . |
| 23 | Thank you for allowing me to . . |
| 24 | Thank you for allowing me to . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 26 | KIM WILDE : For allowing herself to be subjected to year after year of pathetic changes of image which only serve to make her look uncomfortable , especially the latest one , with the expensive Marilyn Monroe dress , loads of cleavage and sub-Belinda Carlisle rock balladeering . |
| 27 | Annoyed at herself for allowing herself to be suckered into that , Paige said nothing . |
| 28 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 29 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 30 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |