Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Worth seeing for the performances , especially those of George T Odom , Ann D Sanders and Rich himself . |
2 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
3 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
4 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
5 | Accordingly , subject to work permits being forthcoming , I have accepted a post as Rector , and Elizabeth as a Diocesan Counsellor with special responsibility for helping with the problems of AIDS . |
6 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
7 | You 've got ta think of the generations they would be more likely to lead a pop star or sort of person that would know all those those sort of things , put Michael with Michelle and Mooty and Lisa with Papa and Mum |
8 | final you 've got ta be a bit more dramatic , you 've got ta think of the words that are dramatic words , final death toll amounted to twenty twenty dead , forty three injured . |
9 | It was so enjoyable that at the headwall I took a line up the steepest part , just so I could play about hanging from the holds . |
10 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
11 | With a background in ICI 's pharmaceutical and paints operations , he told The Economist a year ago that a case could be made for hanging onto the jewels and getting rid of the tarnished tinsel . |
12 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
13 | But the motive for praying for the saints is to equip them to minister in the world . |
14 | The tactics for keeping off the ropes , so to speak , had been explained to every platoon commander the previous June , and they knew ‘ every mile towards the east was a serious loss ’ . |
15 | Charged four times with the offence in between 1640 and 1652 , he came before the Court yet again in 1691 for keeping on the Downs far more than his ‘ stent ’ or allotted number of animals . |
16 | And also the marks of the little side axe used for trimming off the sides . |
17 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
18 | The income of these farmers is partly from wool , but mainly from lambs or young store cattle which are sold for fattening on the farms of the lowlands . |
19 | First there was the illustrated slide show he gave in the village hall about walking in the dales where , sensitive to the good burghers of Sedbergh , he modified his vocabulary . |
20 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , ‘ the only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so 's you can steal His gold teeth . ’ |
21 | It is also a fine place for walking along the cliff-tops , inventing stories for your children ( or yourself ) , and watching the changing moods of an ocean . |
22 | ‘ There are an awful lot of free activities such as walking along the walls and sampling the atmosphere in the streets . ’ |
23 | The cutouts were used for matching to the shoes . |
24 | That may teach them a lesson for kowtowing to the Germans and it should warn us to be wary of both countries . |
25 | It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse . |
26 | People with a record for interfering with the likes of the Pitts , not ones with their social standing , though . ’ |
27 | Today Oxford Crown Court heard Walker was arrested after crashing into a police car , which blocked his path on a motorway slip road . |
28 | She came in every day , after seeing to the babies , if there was no-one about . |
29 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |
30 | The boy was convicted of 71 offences , including 40 charges of burglary , after absconding from a children 's home . |