Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 2 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 3 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 4 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 5 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 6 | For instance , if you are going to be discussing inner city problems , speaking about them from a beautiful stately home deep in the heart of the countryside lessens the impact somewhat ! |
| 7 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 8 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 9 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 10 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 11 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 12 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 13 | If so , chop through them with a small cold chisel . |
| 14 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 15 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 16 | ‘ Those altar candles we pay so much for , we seem to be getting through them at a fair old rate . |
| 17 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 18 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 19 | He sorted through them in a numb panic . |
| 20 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 21 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 22 | It was the Guga Hunters who had chartered Viking to land the men and supplies ' on Sula Sgeir and return for them at a specified date . |
| 23 | The take or place booking means that the client will be offered a room if there has been a ‘ no show ’ or cancellation , and failing that accommodation will be found for them at a comparable hotel , usually within the same chain of hotels . |
| 24 | So w we 're not charging out for them at a high enough rate . |
| 25 | Or rather , their memoirs were launched for them at a glib and glitzy party by Heinemann , the publishers . |
| 26 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 27 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |
| 28 | There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted . |
| 29 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 30 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |