Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be .
2 The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial .
3 The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings .
4 Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels .
5 The children must be quite clear from the outset about the task in hand ; what is going to be expected from them during the course of the lesson ?
6 Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels .
7 Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child .
8 Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt .
9 Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue .
10 Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’
11 Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century .
12 Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity .
13 Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change .
14 ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply .
15 Join everyone for the party of the year in the Daten Sports and Social Club on Wednesday , 31st March .
16 It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water .
17 Historically there seems to be no doubt that the English Common Law required nothing for the celebration of a marriage beyond the declared agreement of the parties , which might take the form either of a declaration of present intention , or of a promise to marry followed by actual union .
18 Her apparent cry of anguish last week that John Major has treated her legacy without due reverence is not convincing ; the old bat cares nothing for the well-being of the Conservative Party or indeed Conservative government .
19 Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ :
20 It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions .
21 Such was the message Lewis passed on , himself saying nothing for the moment of his own extraordinarily exciting find , but agreeing to pick up Morse in about ten minutes ' time , after briefly reporting in to St Aldate 's .
22 She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent .
23 Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players .
24 Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management .
25 The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings .
26 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
27 To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days .
28 The dogs were mostly strays who had befriended American troops and accompanied them through the horrors of war .
29 Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes .
30 and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can
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