Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 2 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 3 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 4 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 5 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 6 | For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home . |
| 7 | For them a systematic process is more plausible and most human resource departments in firms have systematized procedures ( application forms , interview schedules , psychological tests ) to extract theme data at the time a person joins the firm . |
| 8 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 9 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 10 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 11 | Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers . |
| 12 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 13 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 14 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 15 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 16 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |
| 17 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 18 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 19 | Lloyd has ‘ discovered ’ for them a magnificent location in the shape of the old ‘ boat-houses ’ along the Embankment . |
| 20 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 21 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 22 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 23 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 24 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 25 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 26 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 27 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 28 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
| 29 | For them the skilful use of mass media may be important , and key contacts in positions of power will be a great help . |
| 30 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |