Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 13 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 14 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 15 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 16 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 17 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
| 18 | The dogs were mostly strays who had befriended American troops and accompanied them through the horrors of war . |
| 19 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 20 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 21 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 22 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 23 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 24 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 25 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 26 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |
| 27 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 28 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 29 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 30 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |