Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 2 | We asked for nothing but a few gestures — |
| 3 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 4 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 5 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 6 | A fortnight ago , the Norwich Union East Champions lost to Redbridge and Ilford , who Chelmsford have beaten this season , but form would count for nothing in a derby game , he insisted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Before describing each of the methods in greater detail , one further point can be made about them as a whole . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 ’ … ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I read about them in a book , ’ she said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 24 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having dedicated so much energy to his love of Shakespeare , Berlioz wrote his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing with a careful sense of how much speech should surround the musical numbers . |
| 28 | WONDERFUL NEWS FOR EVERYONE WITH A BOUNCING , HUNGRY , INQUISITIVE , SLEEPY , WIDE AWAKE , GURGLING , CHEWING , THIRSTY , SMILING , BABY |
| 29 | The most famous of the town 's shopping areas is The Lanes : an inviting labyrinth of seventeenth century red-brick streets full of antique shops , jewellers , perfumeries , fine china and stores for everyone with a passion for fashion . |
| 30 | For everyone with an addictive and self-destructive problem , absolute honesty is vital . |