Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 2 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 3 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 4 | The value of Hayek 's work as a representative theory of liberalism lies for us in its rigour and its comprehensiveness and in the fact that it is acutely aware of the importance of law . |
| 5 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 6 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 7 | God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality . |
| 8 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 9 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 10 | 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 ’ … ’ . |
| 11 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 12 | Listen to the voice talking to you in everything you do and know it is not your voice , but the inner voice of the one who cares for you with love and infinite tenderness . |
| 13 | What 's the midwife 's job when she cares for you after the birth ? |
| 14 | • Your complexion deserves make-up which not only improves its appearance but also cares for it throughout the day , so RoC 's foundations are designed to do just that . |
| 15 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 16 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 17 | Chris has to pay a woman to sit with Beryl during the day and he looks after her after work , ’ Maureen said . |
| 18 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 19 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 20 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 21 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 22 | They run off laughing like parrots as my companion shouts after them in disgust . |
| 23 | BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism . |
| 24 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 25 | That 's well it looks like it to me . |
| 26 | legend , this looks like it to me |
| 27 | Just just looks like it to you . |
| 28 | Looks like it from here , looks like |
| 29 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 30 | Where the latter have rejected other gods in favour of the one they wish to follow , the former has attempted to assimilate the many gods in which it believes into a single Deity who stands behind them as their ground . |