Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 2 | There are 120 cats and dogs being looked after at the RSPCA 's animal shelter in Whitminster near Stroud . |
| 3 | Blake , now aged 67 , has been well looked after by the KGB and lives in considerable comfort with his second wife Ida and their son Mischa . |
| 4 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 5 | Some of the mosaics have been lost during the centuries but much remains and is carefully looked after by the Ravenna authorities . |
| 6 | The Albanians of Yugoslavia ( not only those in Kosovo but also elsewhere , especially in Macedonia ) consider themselves to be an oppressed people , who have always been discriminated against by the Serbs , whether under the monarchy or under communist rule . |
| 7 | The views of teachers were amongst the matters looked into by the Sheffield University team when carrying out research for the Elton Committee . |
| 8 | A girl I used to work with at the Beechams did like really big burps . |
| 9 | Dr Murdoch resigned from the British Medical Association over its attitude to the Arthur case , but criticism has also come from within the BMA . |
| 10 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 11 | That was the year we moved in in the August , well that was the following summer |
| 12 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 13 | Martin Chuzzlewit returning from across the Atlantic Ocean is like one returning from the dead , a ghost ( the allusion is to the drowning of Pharaoh 's host in the Red Sea as described in Exod. 14 . |
| 14 | This page enables you to indicate which versions of which modules are likely to be involved in the problem or suggestion responded to by the SSR . |
| 15 | The Commission 's aim of reskilling workers before they become unemployed , and smoothing their transition into alternative employment is also objected to by the UK Government , as it is seen as industrial policy in disguise . |
| 16 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 17 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 18 | First heard of in the Domesday Book , listed as Torne , eventually a Baron Gumald settled in the area , adding his title to the original , and thus emerged its present name . |
| 19 | These arrangements , however , only affect policies that were applied for after the April 1987 deadline . |
| 20 | Police have released a description of the man they 're looking for in the Tewkesbury attack . |
| 21 | Victory went to McConnochie 's Golden Friend , whose win puts him in line for a tilt at next year 's Grand National , while Stephenson 's The Thinker proved that he will again be a force to be reckoned with in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March . |
| 22 | Farther south , the Andean civilisation had more similarities with Mesopotamia than with China ; so the idea that its shaping influence came from across the Pacific seems especially far-fetched . |
| 23 | Abroad , Boerhaave at Leyden , the merchants George Clifford at Amsterdam and Daniel Gould at Leghorn wanted copies and two names came from across the Atlantic : the Governor of South Carolina , H. E. James Johnson and a Mr John James of Boston . |
| 24 | In the western gable north Greek and Athenian heroes are guided in the fight against barbarism by another child of Zeus , god of light and healing and lord of the two other greatest inter-state sanctuaries , Delphi north of the gulf and the Ionian island Delos ; while on the east front Zeus himself supports the fortunes of Pelops who came from beyond the Aegean to give his name to the Peloponnese . |
| 25 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
| 26 | A " dirty tricks " department operated from within the White House , hatching schemes to smear possible Democratic opponents . |
| 27 | In most cases patients ' needs will be met from within the NHS . |
| 28 | You can always be sure of finding someone to talk to at the Kamara . |
| 29 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 30 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |