Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ To me everyone in the pop has an image of being stoned and drunk every night . |
| 3 | To think that you are and will be mine and I yours through the mercies of God when this transitory life is past and gone , for all eternity ! |
| 4 | Sections 34–43 give the Director power to act against someone who in the course of business persistently breaks the law ( civil or criminal ) in a way detrimental to the interests of consumers . |
| 5 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 6 | He had made them himself with the things the girl , Marie , had brought last time she 'd come . |
| 7 | He snatched up a handful of the medicaments and began distributing them himself to the coolies in the front rank . |
| 8 | JUST AS the world succumbed to the vile peace and love mumblings of ‘ Sgt Pepper ’ and San Francisco flower-in-the-hair wearers , former session hack Lou Reed , art bod John Cale and friends teamed up with foghorn-voiced German model Nico and made the album without which no-one from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Ride would have a clue . |
| 9 | He went on to top our list of goalscorers for each of his first five seasons ( another record ) and , between September 1929 and April 1935 , played in 180 league and 15 FA Cup matches for us , scoring a fabulous 153 League and 12 FA Cup goals to establish a tally which no-one in the club has ever approached before or since . |
| 10 | So notices for insurance premia arrive at Trivandrum in South India , say , printed only in Hindi , which no-one in the area can decipher . |
| 11 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 12 | any way she said its nothing like the tiles she had done in the kitchen |
| 13 | We do not wish to commit Spain to entering the war merely in order to frighten England into a peace from which nothing but the independence of the Americans would be obtained … |
| 14 | In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings , through which nothing but the ragwort would grow . |
| 15 | A further offence is to be found in the Mail Order Transactions ( Information ) Order 1976 , whereby written advertisements in which someone in the course of a business invites from consumers mail orders for goods , with payment in advance , must include a legible description of the name and address of the person inviting the orders . |
| 16 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 17 | Or the forthright Mayo farmer — obviously a man of taste — who lays into Charlie Haughey for spending millions of pounds on ‘ interpretation centres which none of the locals want ’ when it would be better used in building factories . |
| 18 | However , to lose that ingredient from the richness of their diversity would be an outcome which none of the colleges would wish to contemplate . |
| 19 | Finally , there is another aim which relates to both Sections A and B , and which none of the models has taken seriously enough : 7. help pupils to learn how to cope with controversy , complexity , confusion , and uncertainty within a safe environment , so that they are able to manage these unavoidable aspects of life without trying to resort to premature certainty , dogmatism or exclusivism . |
| 20 | She came out of the need quite suddenly one afternoon when , after sex , her partner held her tenderly , which none of the others had done . |
| 21 | Since a large number of locations were needed for this study it was decided to use locations which none of the subjects were likely to know rather than stimuli filmed in the Cambridge area which would differ in the degree of previous familiarity subjects had with them . |
| 22 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 23 | It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority . |
| 24 | Eventually the guard climbed aboard and entered Mrs Ross 's carriage and demanded to know who had pulled the communication cord which none of the passengers could see from their seated position . |
| 25 | The worst performance was on occlusion of the punctum , which none of the participants was able to perform . |
| 26 | Which one up the road ? |
| 27 | Then he gives a traitor 's title to another man whom he foolishly trusts , which we as the audience realise to be some extreme form of Irony . |
| 28 | We need to look at assumptions , seeing whether we think they really are justified , and if so , do they really lead to the positions which we at the moment think they lead to . |
| 29 | This is a question which we in the West need to ask ourselves , for too often we identify the self with the body , or feeling or thinking or consciousness . |
| 30 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |