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Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge .
2	They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse .
3	She got through it without a mistake .
4	But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy !
5	Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves .
6	When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later .
7	Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love .
8	Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries .
9	Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for .
10	‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years .
11	Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months .
12	She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others .
13	After the winner I rode for him at York . ’
14	And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him .
15	Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions .
16	Two thousand five hundred volunteers advanced on the salt depot in successive waves of twenty-five , defying orders to retreat and offering no resistance when the police laid about them with clubs , kicking and beating those who fell .
17	Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side .
18	When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person .
19	I got asked about it for months .
20	Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front .
21	His touch lanced through her like a lightning bolt , clenching every muscle and tightening every nerve before filling her with liquid heat .
22	Rourke 's blue eyes lanced through her like spears of ice .
23	I dutifully read through them with sinking feelings and , sometimes , a touch of nausea .
24	I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes .
25	His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused .
26	A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) .
27	I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour .
28	He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ .
29	I asked for you to be brought here to do a specific job .
30	Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion .