Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I worship thee for fear of hell , |
| 2 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 3 | Costs of this magnitude and doubts about the ability to recoup them through improvements in efficiency or other gains are likely to be a significant disincentive to attempting a take-over and their scale suggests that they constitute a barrier behind which sub-optimally performing boards can find a substantial measure of protection . |
| 4 | The first census pairs them off man for man , leaving a surplus of 273 who are redeemed by money . |
| 5 | The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit . |
| 6 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 7 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 8 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 9 | He leaves me for days on end . |
| 10 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 11 | But if you do n't tell them about things like banker 's order about the signature , particularly if two s two erm signatures are wanted on the cheque and the banker 's order , if the other guy 's not there you do n't go round until he 's available . |
| 12 | We carry out rummage searches of the islands to deter such activities as smuggling , and terrorists from using them as locations for weapon hides . |
| 13 | Smith ( 1960 ) has shown how images of the Pacific islanders were manipulated in these two directions , and Mitter ( 1977 ) has traced the varied history or European interpretations of Hindu sacred statuary , from viewing them initially as images of the devil , to finally incorporating them as works of art . |
| 14 | Illich is also sceptical of professionals ' self-descriptions and has described them as definers of reality in their relationship with clients . |
| 15 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 16 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 17 | He remained by the Shahs side first as prime minster and them as minister of court until his death from cancer in 1977 . |
| 18 | Beyond this it 's a handbook of fake advice , both social ( LIGHT : Always say Fiat lux ! when lighting a candle ) and aesthetic ( RAILWAY STATIONS : Always go into ecstasies about them ; cite them as models of architecture ) . |
| 19 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 20 | I try to present them as ribbons of metal because that creates the illusion of movement and I can put them in an off balance position . |
| 21 | Sniffers may be able to exercise some control over their hallucinations and use them as part of group activities . |
| 22 | Where indexicals can be routinely treated truth-conditionally , we will therefore continue to think of the theory that handles them as part of semantics . |
| 23 | The hunting , fishing and shooting which Diana detests will be held up to them as badges of manhood . |
| 24 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 25 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 26 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 27 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 28 | There are many of these power bases and their usefulness depends on whether other people concede that the individual has them as bases for power or not . |
| 29 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 30 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |