Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The apparatus consists of a curved silicon crystal , which disperses the X-rays from one of the beams and deflects them through the sample in an environmental cell . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Saturday promises to be a great day for the public and will give children a chance to see the cars which were made famous for them through the Back to the Future film . ’ |
| 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 | The assistant then ushered them through the doorway behind the counter , removed a sonic transmitter from his pocket and pointed it at the empty bookcase against the opposite wall . |
| 26 | Gabriel watched them through the knothole beside his pillow , their gaberdines stretched out above their jerking heads , like two long-legged birds pecking at each other in the rain . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He 'd washed his hair and piled all his plastic carrier bags into a corner instead of strewing them through the house like the clues of a treasure-hunt . |
| 29 | He patted them through the material of his overcoat and walked on . |
| 30 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |