Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she had n't returned for them during the week they would have to be returned to her — via Lowell . |
| 2 | Having gone through this process , and perhaps used various bits of PE apparatus to create the dragon 's lair , maybe ask the children to shut their eyes and imagine the dragon in its lair , talking them through the suggestions they 've made , helping them to visualise their creation , before taking on the role . |
| 3 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 4 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 5 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 6 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't blame me for the way you interpret anything I say , ’ he said blandly . |
| 9 | ‘ It berates me for the way I mistreated it last night . ’ |
| 10 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 11 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 12 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 13 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 14 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 15 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 16 | They would ask me for the pass I did n't have , then they would want to know what I was doing there . |
| 17 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |
| 18 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 19 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 20 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 21 | But the last thing I wanted was them chasing Zaria and her telling them about the package she was posting . |
| 22 | Treachery is unlikely , but the decision not to attack the Scottish camp , and not to pursue the Scots when they broke camp , suggests at the very least a lack of confidence and judgement amongst the English commanders , and there is some evidence of disagreement amongst them about the tactics they should adopt . |
| 23 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 24 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 25 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 26 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 27 | They derive narcissistic satisfaction from their cultural ideals when they compare themselves with others ; ‘ … the right to despise the people outside it ( their culture ) compensates them for the wrongs they suffer within their own unit ’ . |
| 28 | Er I think they genuinely believe their case , it 's not a case that I believe , but I I 've always genuinely respected them for the case they take . |
| 29 | However , in school their energy was not always tapped and was sometimes directed towards disrupting the school or , as one pupil said : ‘ to get our own back on them for the way they have treated us ’ . |
| 30 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |