Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villeneuve and Scheckter managed to score just eight points between them during the 1980 season and the reigning world champion failed even to qualify for one race . |
| 2 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 3 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 4 | The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war . |
| 5 | An illustrated booklet to accompany the series was prepared by a member of the Ipswich Tutorial Class and questions which arose during the post-broadcast class discussion were forwarded to Mrs. Adams who dealt with them during the following week 's transmission . |
| 6 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 7 | Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 . |
| 8 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 9 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 10 | In his now famous interview on Wednesday , Lamb pointed the finger at Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , who shared 45 wickets between them during the five-match Test series . |
| 11 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 12 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 13 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 14 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 15 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 16 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 17 | The Head of Department said he expected that the review would ‘ follow them through the normal day ’ , looking at ‘ the way we run the department ; the way we work according to the syllabus — how we relate to it ; the stock control ; the use of resources ; the teaching content and the skills taught ’ ( verified note of meeting ) . |
| 18 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 19 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 20 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 21 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 22 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 23 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 24 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 25 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 26 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 27 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 28 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 29 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 30 | Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed … |