Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 2 | 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 ’ : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The dogs were mostly strays who had befriended American troops and accompanied them through the horrors of war . |
| 7 | A body builder who tackled two armed raiders single-handed , after chasing them through the streets in his car has been hailed as a hero . |
| 8 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 9 | I scrambled out of the trench and accompanied them through the trees to the farm . |
| 10 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |
| 11 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 12 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 13 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 14 | Frequently , all that they will have to guide them through the recommendations of officials will be their own political common sense ; this may well be adequate for a strong minister , but others may find it hard to change the bureaucracy 's course . |
| 15 | As the leaves grow , train them through the bars for a lovely effect . |
| 16 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 17 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 18 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’ |
| 20 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 21 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 22 | PRINCESS Diana knows nothing about the lives of ordinary , everyday people and of inner city deprivation and squalor . |
| 23 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 24 | There is nothing in Polybius about the Bacchanalia scandal , nothing about the measures against the Latins , for instance in 187 B.C. ( Liv . |
| 25 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 26 | They tell readers nothing about the arguments in favour of the extension of VAT . |
| 27 | It was a party of sixth-formers with an instructor teaching them about the effects of weathering , the differing levels of hardness of limestone and how the two combine to produce waterfalls . |
| 28 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 29 | I 'll be going to Governments and health authorities to tell them about the benefits for a whole society . |
| 30 | Ask them about the benefits of a Northern Ireland location and they will highlight the quality of the people that work for them . |