Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 2 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 3 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 4 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 5 | Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve . |
| 6 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |
| 7 | ( iv ) Dehydrate them through a graded alcohol series . |
| 8 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 9 | The county-wide project would mean premises employing bouncers would have to put them through a four-session training scheme and pay a registration fee . |
| 10 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 11 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 12 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 13 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 14 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 15 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 16 | Attracted by my outcry , the thing was flopping towards me for a closer look . |
| 17 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 18 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 20 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 22 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 23 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
| 24 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
| 25 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 26 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 27 | Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 29 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 30 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |