Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be technically possible , for instance , to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world , akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population . |
| 2 | Most doubters either think they have grace or care for nothing but the day itself . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 4 | I wished for nothing but the absence of pain , and Lili seemed beyond harm : as secure and unassailable as the morning-star . |
| 5 | That is in itself a problem , for nothing in the arguments to explain the decline suggests why the fall in fertility should stop at about a two-child family , rather than ‘ overshoot ’ and decline still further ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 6 | This weekend 's results , of course , will count for nothing in the Olympics . |
| 7 | All this counts for nothing in the world of rugby and it will be his ability to scrum and compete with the best that will make or break this South African legend . |
| 8 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 10 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 11 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 12 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 13 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 15 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 16 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 17 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 18 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 19 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 20 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 21 | Well I do n't agree with that , I think that when your in love with someone you want to be with them all the time , you think about them during the day , you think about them at night , you just want to be with them and usually you like how they look , you like how they talk , they like , you like how they treat you and er to me that 's , its wonderful , just |
| 22 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 23 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 25 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 26 | BBC television 's reporter on the Prime Minister 's election tour , Mr John Simpson — an embodiment of the communicating class — wrote about them in the Spectator with special rage . |
| 27 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 28 | The formal powers of the royal family have diminished as the yardage about them in the newspapers has grown . |
| 29 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 30 | However , there are several Mira variables which can be found with binoculars when near maximum , and can even show some colour ; I have given notes about them in the pages which follow , but it is rather pointless to go into detail , because long-period variables are the province of the telescopic observer , and estimates made with binoculars are inevitably rough . |