Example sentences of "[pers pn] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 2 | All of these guidelines , many of them well-intentioned and prepared with care , have been aimed at making primary schools fulfil a predetermined function — to prepare young children for the secondary stage and to give them enthusiasm for learning . |
| 3 | Probably save them loads of money as well . |
| 4 | And I gave them loads of money , |
| 5 | No , you 're not supposed to give them loads of veg ! |
| 6 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he wished me luck in case he did n't get the chance today . |
| 9 | They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit . |
| 10 | ‘ We were told by the teacher it was a mortal sin to touch them P of course we all did ! |
| 11 | Theatre staff know that no protective clothing yet devised will guard them 100% against exposure to HIV or Hepatitis B infection from the patient . |
| 12 | It would take them hours to deprogramme those instructions . |
| 13 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 14 | " I bought a second-hand copy because it had been very usefully annotated , the notes alone will save me hours of work . " |
| 15 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | When your editor asked what kind of tank I would set up if he gave me £250 for Christmas , it was , unfortunately , only a hypothetical question . |
| 17 | Birds were held in high regard because of their ability to soar between heaven and earth , among them birds of prey valued as protective spirits because of their propensity to kill the small animals that damage crops , as well as phoenixes considered to be especially effective against the scourges of drought and fire . |
| 18 | Creggan watched them hour after hour , envying their freedom in such a wide area , though a small ditch right round the pond prevented the ducks wandering too far from its edge . |
| 19 | Certainly the men were only too ready to propitiate their rarely seen companions , leaving them scraps of food , and pieces of candle . |
| 20 | When the music is angry you can feel McGegan shaking his orchestra by their throats , and when Handel calls for celebration , he hands them sticks of candyfloss . |
| 21 | The black clouds had parted to show between them shreds of summer sky turned sickly green . |
| 22 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 23 | There is a need to offer them opportunities in initial and in-service professional development to acquire or improve relevant skills . |
| 24 | Er , loneliness , I mean , a lot , so many of them deal with loneliness , you 'd think that was a preoccupation of women short story writers , I think . |
| 25 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 26 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 27 | There is also the problem that performance testing is highly susceptible to personal distractions and even though the tests and conditions of testing can be standardized , the motivation of those taking them cannot. for example , in some of our own experiments we found that subjects like to accompany each testing session with music . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , when Fox made the preposterous statement that ‘ This is simply shocking , they might as well make me professor of Poetry , ’ Lewis responded , ‘ Well , we will . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If I start gettin' me stride up agin , ’ he said to Willie , ‘ you jest call out . ’ |
| 30 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |