Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Possibly he felt that for her to inherit control of a shipping company might be an embarrassment to her husband in his political career .
2 Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted .
3 We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding .
4 This is an important area in which you can help him a great deal if you can make him feel that with you open grieving is permissible .
5 And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation .
6 He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole .
7 We make sure and many of our tenants , of course , are in receipt of housing benefit , those on the lowest incomes , and for them housing benefit will meet most , if not all , of the increase , but there are many tenants who do n't get housing benefit who will have to pay the increase themselves .
8 Many patients will be having problems with their partners and for them conjoint treatment will often be appropriate .
9 The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere .
10 Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules .
11 And after you left school ? ’
12 Such a summer now stared her in the face , for she had , through indecision , failed to fix herself up any foreign excursions ; she looked towards it and towards her approaching examinations , and felt sadly weak .
13 The fertile biochemistry of forests constantly racked and renewed by volcanic eruption — which once prevailed throughout the cooling surface of the globe — still continues in Indonesia , and amongst her trembling islands we find time-capsules of our earliest beginnings , when dragons stalked the earth .
14 In 1825 Thanet died , and with him went Creevey 's ambition to be a politician .
15 And with him comes Ciullo d'Alcamo , whose ‘ Rosa Fresca aulentissima ’ was translated by D.G. Rossetti : ‘ Thou sweetly-smelling fresh red rose/ That near thy summer art … . ’
16 ‘ The first command was ‘ Let the gases which are scattered throughout space be collected together and with them let worlds be formed ’ , then the gases were brought together into whirling circulating masses [ Nebulae ] . ’
17 For when there is little actual communication , barriers soon go up , and with them come misunderstandings , conflict and anger .
18 They won a penalty just after half-time when Martin Ling was pulled down , but Craig Maskell threw the kick away and with it went Swindon 's chances .
19 Brandy arrived and with it came Mary , carrying a wrap , aromatic salts and a fan , ready for any eventuality .
20 Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism .
21 And with it comes judgement for the attitude which lay behind the outcry .
22 If you do not have such information available , you will have to start by making out phonetic workcharts and from them check lists .
23 A sign above the door proclaims it to be an ‘ Albergo-Osteria ’ , a hostelry or inn and within you find accommodation which perfectly suits that description being bohemian in both appearance and atmosphere .
24 The strains of a two-week court ordeal showed in her face and in her shaking hands but when she spoke of her determination to fight on her voice was steady .
25 Outside the Freitas cottage Abuelo sat on his usual rocking chair , and beside him sat Constance , also rocking , dressed in old cotton trousers and a loose shirt with the sleeves rolled up .
26 Sir Eric was driving , and beside him sat Tony — home for an unexpected holiday .
27 A huge fire was burning , and beside it sat Aunt Emily , dressed in heliotrope and a number of shawls .
28 A good fire burned in the fireplace and beside it sat Doctor Jekyll , looking white and ill .
29 We went round various different avenues and to I asked Ian and Nick to actually change the formulation and decrease the amount of nutrients that were put in a mix .
30 to er me dad went and to I think pit to work .
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