Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 2 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 3 | treat everyone as a temporary language helper . |
| 4 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 5 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 6 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 7 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 8 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 9 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 10 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 11 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 12 | Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve . |
| 13 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |
| 14 | ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series . |
| 15 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 16 | The county-wide project would mean premises employing bouncers would have to put them through a four-session training scheme and pay a registration fee . |
| 17 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 18 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 19 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 20 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 21 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 22 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 23 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 24 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 25 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 26 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 28 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 30 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |