Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’ |
| 3 | The key to the underlying tension here is in the line : ‘ Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? ’ |
| 4 | Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount . |
| 5 | The two Mabon brothers , 27-year-old Hamish and 23-year-old Hunter , the sons of the Scottishborn former President of the Swedish Union , scored ten tries between them by playing the traditional Swedish game — full of energy and aggression . |
| 6 | ‘ The appeal of Caran d'Ache Neocolor II lies for me in combining the exciting possibilities of using the crayons dry as a direct drawing method , or as a painting medium , when they can be dipped into water , finely sprayed for a diffused image , or washed over with a brush — releasing a full flow of colour and texture . ’ |
| 7 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 8 | At a general stage of the procedure we will have a list of efficient tableaux and ‘ process ’ one of them by examining the non-basic variables in turn . |
| 9 | This model , while not recognising the absolute right of regulatory rules to modify common law and equity , gives some recognition to their public law nature by taking into account of them in ascertaining the precise content in a given context of a common law or equitable obligation . |
| 10 | Trotsky spoke for most of them in deprecating the ‘ priestly-Kantian , vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sanctity of human life ’ , and polemically defended a morality in which the end justified the means . |
| 11 | Any minute now , Andrew would start talking in disparaging tones about the habits of ‘ young people ’ , a favourite topic of his since reaching the age of forty . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's some deep bruising here , ’ began Max , pointing to Kemp 's left temple , ‘ but the main blow ’ — he jerked the head towards him before caressing the crushed skull with a gentle reverence — ‘ was here . ’ |
| 13 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 14 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 15 | In the 1060s Pisa won a substantial fortune in a naval raid on Palermo , still in Muslim hands , and dedicated a handsome part of it to beautifying the famous religious quarter of the city — laying the foundations of cathedral and baptistry and other ecclesiastical buildings . |
| 16 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 17 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 18 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 19 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 20 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 21 | You do n't 'old it against me for pinchin' the wallet , do you ? ’ |
| 22 | I fumbled my way into the living-room and closed the door behind me before hitting the light switch . |
| 23 | None knows like him to strew the wheaten Grain , |
| 24 | No one comes near him for stating the bloody obvious . |
| 25 | There 's nothing like it for pushing the world aside . ’ |
| 26 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 27 | You will need to cooperate with them without losing the initiative . |
| 28 | ‘ Service Quality Development are happy to work with them in determining the service needs of the branch network and to encourage feedback through regular service surveys . ’ |
| 29 | Basler 's N96BF was built for the US Navy as R4D-5 ( C-47A-25DK equivalent ) BuNo 17223 and served with them until joining the French naval air arm — Aeronavale — in early 1964 . |
| 30 | I 'm so pleased with her for knowing the way I want to hug her . |