Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 2 | Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them . |
| 3 | Under the heading , ’ Other Benefits ’ — uncosted — it said : ’ The further benefits from Nurse Prescribing are the benefits to patients of faster access to some prescription items and the benefits they will derive from additional items prescribed for them by District Nurses and Health Visitors . ’ |
| 4 | ( For instance , Kamata [ 1982 ] , in his exposé of Toyota in the early 1970s , suggested that workers who chose not to ‘ empower ’ themselves in this way were punished for it through criticism and smaller bonuses ! ) |
| 5 | ( Someone suffering property damage not exceeding £275 may , of course , be able to claim for it in negligence or under the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 6 | Your complete holiday at Colwyn Bay arranged for you with Bed , Breakfast and Evening Meal accommodation at your choice of Hotel inclusive of your choice of activity — Golfing , Bowling , Coach Tours , Fishing , Pony Trekking , Sailing . |
| 7 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 8 | Integrated Device Technology Inc says Orion , the low-power Mips Technologies Inc R4000 VRX derivative developed for it by Quantum Effect Design Inc ( UX No 409 ) , will be taped out by the middle of next year , with samples due twelve months from now . |
| 9 | But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 11 | I shall only be able to weep for him at night , after Enid has fallen asleep . |
| 12 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 13 | try and get some information on this they felt that they were confident that at the end of the day that erm , approval would be given but erm I I I asked for it in writing and they said we would n't be getting that . |
| 14 | 'E 's keen on 'er , and she seemed ti be fond of 'im till 'e asked for 'er in wedlock . ’ |
| 15 | Alexandra gazed about her with delight , folding the Burrows , the Pemberleys , the Chamberlins , the village , everyone , into the warm embrace of her grateful glance , and sang and sang . |
| 16 | Ruth gazed about her in awe . |
| 17 | Or had Washington and Moscow reached some grand design in which Iran divided between them as part of a plan for world condominium . |
| 18 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 19 | I think all those who the statement , I do n't propose to go through it in detail . |
| 20 | We can think about it after Christmas . |
| 21 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 22 | They glared at one another , attraction and antagonism crackling between them like electricity . |
| 23 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 24 | To get good dried apricots it is nowadays necessary to shop for them in wholefood and health food stores . |
| 25 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 26 | Here at Whaddon I have allowed his talent to blossom and I would not be surprised to see the League big boys sniffing after him before Christmas , and Darren to be a regular in Barnet reserves by the end of the season . |
| 27 | ‘ Did n't I offer to go after 'er on be'alf of the gent ? |
| 28 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 29 | Now talking of freebies , they could actually watch a cage being drilled for them as part of it . |
| 30 | In summer 1986 it is planned to take two HND or degree students : their training schemes provide for them to understudy intermediate departmental managers ( including the Head Housekeeper ) for six-week periods . |