Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to thank you all at this time on behalf of the Association and the sport we represent for all your efforts you make for us in an unpaid capacity and time given voluntary to all . |
| 2 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 3 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 4 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 5 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 6 | They rallied behind him despite an interview at the weekend in which he suggested he had considered the possibility of a contest for the leadership after this year . |
| 7 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
| 8 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 9 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 10 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 11 | He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it . |
| 12 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 13 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 14 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 15 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 16 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , hell-oh , ’ said a large man as she tried to slip by him with an ‘ excuse-me ’ . |
| 18 | Some cases , the easy ones , were solved by it like an intellectual puzzle . |
| 19 | Oh no , it would n't , I would n't think of it as an alternative to interaction with other people . |
| 20 | he always thinks of you as an Inspector |
| 21 | The first ever personalised beauty programme written for you by experts , with cosmetics specially selected for you from an exclusive new range . |
| 22 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 23 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 24 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 25 | And , of course , people who do help by sponsoring these items could even choose to have a rare creature named after them in an unusual form of immortality . |
| 26 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 27 | And looking behind us in an emotional sense can be of great preventive value . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , people can identify with him as an ordinary , decent bloke . ’ |
| 29 | WordStar ( the company ) was quite late into the Windows market , and then came into it with an OEM deal . |
| 30 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |