Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be so much healthier for them than city streets . ’ |
| 3 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 4 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 5 | If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism . |
| 6 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 8 | Jill would work for me if Uncle was n't around but as soon as he appeared she did n't care a fig for me and would be off to see what he wanted to do . |
| 9 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Oliver called after him as Cobalt headed for the kitchen . |
| 11 | Here they were , chasing after him when caution should have kept them away . |
| 12 | Much of the credit for that must go to New Zealander George Simpkin , the man who made a name for himself as coach of Waikato and subsequently as coach of Fiji in the 1987 World Cup . |
| 13 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 14 | The Left had discovered that more was being expected of them than tolerance , but while the PRG had succeeded in setting an agenda based on fear , hatred and ignorance , Positive Images failed to popularize our own agenda of equality , choice and resistance to oppression . |
| 15 | I think we 'll only need three of them because daddy 's |
| 16 | The Government is restoring several of them as holiday flats , a slow process but tastefully done . |
| 17 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 18 | For the past twelve years ( eight of them as President ) , Reinz has been active in the Bundesverband der Deutschen Galerien ( founded in 1977 ) which orchestrates the annual Art Colonia . |
| 19 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 20 | The project involves the coordination of research terms in about twenty countries , most of them where English is the first language of the majority of the population or an official second language . |
| 21 | That is , the Dionysiac vision of himself as satyr was complemented by an Apolline vision of events outside himself , i.e. the sufferings of Dionysus ; and these visionary events constitute the origin of the skene with its dramatic action and speech . |
| 22 | A man can cope with having a straggly beard or his head being bald , but his definition of himself as male belongs primarily to his sexual functioning . |
| 23 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 24 | The doctrine of the Trinity thus becomes the universal dialectical process , while the dogmas of creation and incarnation speak of Mind 's projection of itself as Nature , and witness to the ultimate identity of Infinite and finite Mind . |
| 25 | She explained the minister 's ill-treatment of her as revenge for her withdrawal of an annual gift of £8 to the parish church when she found out that he had attempted to publish her charity . |
| 26 | Back on vinyl following a two-year bout of writer 's block , he 's surprised and depressed to find the media 's image of him as rock 's Mr Glum has survived , in spite of the exhilarating content of the new LP , These Immortal Souls ' ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' . |
| 27 | The sense of him as alien was withdrawing . |
| 28 | ( a ) If a legal concept is mentioned in the question , do not attempt a full explanation of it unless explanation is requested or necessitated by the question . |
| 29 | the other thing is to do with being fascist , yes , but you know you erm , you can talk about Russia , you know , running under the Czar and all the rest of it before communism came along . |
| 30 | We will encourage parents on income support to claim maintenance by allowing them to keep part of it before benefit is cut . |