Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 2 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 3 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 4 | She knew nothing about him beyond the fact that he was immensely wealthy , the owner of the London-based Silver Star Navigation who for some strange reason had branched out into the fashion industry . |
| 5 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 6 | But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn . |
| 7 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 8 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 9 | There 's nothing about it in the manifesto . |
| 10 | There is nothing about it in the rules ! |
| 11 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 12 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 13 | ‘ He reminded me about it in the dressing room before the game , and if it 's said you 're not playing with enough desire you 've just got to swallow it and do the best you can . |
| 14 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 15 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 16 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 17 | Very well , convey my congratulations to General Froebe — I 'm sure he 'll be anxious to convey his to me for the sake of protocol . ’ |
| 18 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought nothing of it at the time , because my knee has straightened after five minutes in the past . |
| 20 | Almighty God , our heavenly Father , infinite in wisdom , love and power : have compassion on those for whom we pray ; and help us to use all suffering in the cause of your kingdom , through him who gave himself for us on the cross , Jesus Christ , Your Son and our Lord , |
| 21 | He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving . |
| 22 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 23 | There 's plenty of them in the Washington ai n't there ? |
| 24 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 25 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 26 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 27 | Sally sat down hard on them , forcing her legs together , but as usual in the end he won and she retrieved the panties from the floor , pushing them behind her on the seat before they were trampled underfoot . |
| 28 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 29 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 30 | Dr John Curtis , Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum , said yesterday that there was nothing like it in the world . |