Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 2 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 3 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 4 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 5 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 6 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 7 | REFEREE Peter Jevons threw a dictionary , so to speak , at Jeremy Tanner , 21 , after booking him during a match between Derbyshire village side West Hallam and local rivals Alvaston . |
| 8 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |
| 9 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 10 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 11 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 12 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 13 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 14 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 15 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 16 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 17 | She took the boxed flower and then , after holding it for a moment and wondering what to do with it , laid it down alongside her place setting . |
| 18 | Scar-faced Moore , 33 , dragged two-year-old Clare and David , four , from their mother 's arms after threatening her with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 19 | One evening , after threatening her with a knife , he raped and then stabbed her . |
| 20 | Hunter carved a hideous noughts and crosses pattern on Heidi 's naked bottom after strangling her with a belt . |
| 21 | She was able to appreciate the problems they might be having dealing with English spoken in a variety of accents and dialects after learning it in a purely academic setting . |
| 22 | Researchers also managed to trap the ethyl radical , C 2 H 5 , another classic organic intermediate , after preparing it from a precursor containing carbon dioxide . |
| 23 | After studying her for a moment in silence , he added , ‘ What possessed you to take off your shoes and come charging out of the alley like that ? ’ |
| 24 | Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form . |
| 25 | A MAN shot dead his teenage daughter after mistaking her for a burglar . |
| 26 | VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs . |
| 27 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 28 | TENDERISE tough meat by marinating it in any kind of citrus juice or by spooning juice over the meat after piercing it with a fork . |
| 29 | After watching them for a while I suggested that they might try to keep most numbers constant and change just one . |
| 30 | Joseph and his mother , after watching them for a moment , turned and strolled away to inspect the dead calf . |