Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before it whisked out of sight I got the impression of a bloated grey body standing about hip-high to me on four thin legs . |
| 2 | Frequently in this period the representation of the man — man — woman triangle suggests that the desire which bonds men over women is as erotically invested for the men in relation to each other as for each of them in relation to the women . |
| 3 | Now I 'd like to go through each of them with you now and then again in two weeks ' time , and hear any suggestions you may have . |
| 4 | I 've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench , and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands . ’ |
| 5 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 6 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 7 | It was hardly fair , was it , to fire one question after another at him from the moment she got into his car at Mariánské Láznë until she got out again in Prague ? |
| 8 | God is left to look after all of them by himself . |
| 9 | McLeish will look after those around him at the back , while McStay will almost certainly be partnered by Celtic team-mate John Collins in midfield . |
| 10 | Indeed , after lecturing on this work for twenty-five years , and though I could write out most of it from visual memory , it still sounds elusive . ) |
| 11 | I 'll get in touch , I 'll give her a ring , because we actually , we were looking erm out of the twelve of you altogether we were looking for six of you to actually have your feet washed on Maundy Thursday evening at the , at the , the mass at the service on Maundy Thursday evening . |
| 12 | And that 's worth six to you for a start ! |
| 13 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 14 | The defendant pointed to the close relationship of those witnesses and Paulette , the background of tension and domestic strife and the animosity of each of them towards the defendant and stressed the ease with which their evidence could have been fabricated and the absence of corroboration . |
| 15 | The impressive thing about the British experience in this respect is the variety of patterns which have resulted and the good sense of each of them in their own contexts . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 17 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 18 | So next day when the heralds returned , Keith made such offer , adding that he must be allowed to inform the Regent of this for it to be effective . |
| 19 | So , Creation 6 takes care of this for us by working on an elastic grid , allowing us to design in proportion and then making this a proportional pattern within the electronics to keep the design proportions correct . |
| 20 | Although many towns and housing estates are served by live and dynamic churches , many are not , and even within a small community of 12,000 like ours in Cranham , there can still be whole estates from which only a handful of people are Christians . |
| 21 | We can get rid of much of it by subduction , but certain Orogenic episodes ( notably the Hercynian ) seem to have very little to show of the ocean floor . |
| 22 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 23 | In addition , if any arrangement exists with any offeror , target or associate of either of them in relation to such securities , details of the arrangement must be publicly disclosed whether or not any dealing takes place . |
| 24 | another one of these for you for tomorrow , oh god , rest of it , oh it 's only on the cloth it is dirty anyway |
| 25 | There have been other examples used , though not many that are n't historical , but there have been , for instance , there was an account of a road accident , I 'll give most of these to you as exercises . |
| 26 | There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call . |
| 27 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 28 | The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used . |
| 29 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 30 | These were resolved by the formal recognition that the structure was no longer one of layers or levels , but a curriculum/year-group matrix , requiring close collaboration between the parties and the involvement of all of them in policy discussions . |