Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth led them through a brick archway into a second room overflowing with cardboard boxes , many of them open to reveal their contents . |
| 2 | If you were ordering hundreds and hundreds of these would you put , express them through a parcel delivery service ? |
| 3 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |
| 4 | I suppose you could if you put them through a junction box or something . |
| 5 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 6 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 7 | They were so transparent and thin , you could put them through a wedding ring . |
| 8 | Students may enter complex calculations from sources such as passed examination papers and the computer will take them through a solution step by step . |
| 9 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 10 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 11 | telling me for a fact Steven wo n't touch me ? |
| 12 | Hitting me for a fiver commission as well . |
| 13 | Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee . |
| 14 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 15 | Got sod all to do with me as a S A U. |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think anybody will ever regard me as a BBC insider , ’ he insists . |
| 17 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 18 | WHAT began for me as a culture shock 25 years ago , has now transmuted into an enduring sense of sorrow and frustration . |
| 19 | Apart from identifying me as a Leeds supporter , the quality is normally a LOT better than your average socks etc , I have socks which I still wear going back 6–7 years , and they still feel like socks ! |
| 20 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 22 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They do n't see me as a health professional who knows it all , but who does n't really understand ; they see me as a disabled person . ’ |
| 23 | It was sent to me as a review copy . |
| 24 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 25 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 26 | But in fact there was very little apart from discussion at the end , that was actually relevant to voluntary services , it was about local government reorganization which was very interesting , for me as a parish councillor . |
| 27 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 28 | ‘ I looked up to Valerie and Lesley when I was a kid and I hope today 's youngsters will see me as a role model . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Growling horribly close to my ear , he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat , ’ he wrote . |
| 30 | The authority refuses or did refuse to consider me as a supply teacher in nay capacity until six months had passed . |