Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 3 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 4 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 5 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 6 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 7 | The children must be quite clear from the outset about the task in hand ; what is going to be expected from them during the course of the lesson ? |
| 8 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 9 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 10 | Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt . |
| 11 | Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue . |
| 12 | Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’ |
| 13 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 14 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 15 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 16 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 17 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 18 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 19 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 20 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 21 | Carter lead them through a doorway onto a staircase . |
| 22 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 23 | The nuns led them through a series of exercises which encouraged them to think about the good in themselves , and to know that God , in His love for them , has forgiven their sins . |
| 24 | It has also produced the Green Partnership , a 12-step programme implemented by the hotels , which guides them through a series of initiatives to make the properties more environmentally friendly . |
| 25 | In this situation the distance/number of links between the pair could be calculated from the ‘ shortest path ’ connecting them through a sequence of intermediate linked probes . |
| 26 | They had homes and jobs in their own country but these have been burned and stripped away from them through no fault of their own . |
| 27 | Medicines do not come without risks , and patients are harmed by them through no fault of the drug or the prescriber . |
| 28 | He 'd found them through an ad in Private Eye , and they always welcomed his business — but then , the tottering co-operative would welcome anybody 's business . |
| 29 | Their migration route to the Alaskan feeding grounds takes them through an area of ocean which is cluttered with drift-nets . |
| 30 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |