Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
4 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
5 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
6 | They know if an elderly relative needs long-term nursing care there is nowhere for them in the NHS any more . ’ |
7 | There is n't room for them in the Gaza Strip and West Bank . |
8 | ‘ I acquired quite a taste for them in the States . ’ |
9 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
10 | There 's no competitive disadvantage for them in the Intel decision . |
11 | NEW ZEALAND 's symbiotic relationship with Western Samoa is fast making international selection an exercise in flying flags of convenience judging by Pat Lam 's appearance for them in the Hong Kong Sevens . |
12 | However , since Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were linked to the broader issue of the Indian Ocean ‘ zone of peace ’ Soviet officials still made an effort to gain support for them from the Indian Ocean Third World states and the non-aligned nations in general . |
13 | America 's top two golfers — they have won $2.5m between them on the US circuit this season — have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they want to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup , when Love , Couples and Tom Kite lost to England in the semi-finals . |
14 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
15 | She recently changed erm , to come and work for me on the Warwickshire area about four weeks ago . |
16 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
17 | Nearer home for me in the Cairngorms , conditions were reasonable but nothing special on the high cliffs , whereas the lower Creag an Dubh Loch was in good nick for a while . |
18 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
19 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
20 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
21 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
22 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
23 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
24 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
25 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
26 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
27 | He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving . |
28 | The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption . |
29 | Between 1851 and 1880 about 5.3 million left the British Isles ( 3.5 million of them to the United States , 1 million to Australia , half a million to Canada ) — by far the greatest body of trans-oceanic emigrants in the world . |
30 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |