Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both also joined the League of Nations Union , lecturing widely for it on world peace ; and in 1922 they toured Europe to investigate postwar conditions . |
| 2 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 3 | So much is at stake at today 's talks that the region 's vice-convener , Peter Peacock , who will make a presentation to Mr Lang , was reluctant to say much about it in advance . |
| 4 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 5 | Survey after survey in the 1970s pointed both to growing public expenditure ( much of it on defence ) and yet also to a run-down public sector . |
| 6 | I heard this , this , a range rover coming ever so , ever so patiently behind me at walking pace , I suddenly realised there was something behind me . |
| 7 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 8 | Ideally , the second dog should have been a bitch , as one of each sex usually get along fine ; but now , loving both dogs equally , all the family wanted to do was get Stan and Ollie to live together with them in peace . |
| 9 | These exultations , these hymns , come so suddenly upon me like unbidden genii bearing gifts that no mortals have ever seen before . |
| 10 | The only role created on him by an experienced choreographer was that of a Negro pugilist in Andrée Howard 's Mardi Gras , and that ballet , although striking in its strange , suggestive drama , was such an idiosyncratic , atmospheric piece that he was unlikely to learn much from it about form or structure . |
| 11 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 12 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 13 | The castle became one of the duke 's main northern residences and local families turned naturally to him for lordship . |
| 14 | This is close enough to us in time to qualify for the " present " end of the uniformitarian doctrine . |
| 15 | I think if Jeff Beck ever remembered having met me it would be precisely because I did n't crawl all over him in sycophancy . |
| 16 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 17 | Well he 'll be pissed off all over it with football boots on . |
| 18 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 19 | Any extra charges the guest incurs will be charged to their room number , and the account settled personally by them on check-out . |
| 20 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 21 | Anne , waiting downstairs for him with coffee and sandwiches on a tray , wanted to talk about the find at Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's already got several exactly like it at home , ’ Laura joked , ‘ but I wo n't say anything because he so enjoys buying them . ’ |
| 23 | I certainly hope you manage to trace him , Captain , or at least bring those who have made away with him to account . ’ |
| 24 | Another point to bear in mind when you are taking a camcorder away with you on holiday is that you may wish to do check replays of your recordings on a colour set as you go along . |
| 25 | So I 'm never gon na get away with it at work am I ? |
| 26 | Fawning yet fearless ; possessed of a certain saucy vulgarity , he gets away with it by virtue of his confidence man 's charm . |
| 27 | Eating out will be the most difficult for the first two stages , but you can certainly get away with it from time to time . |
| 28 | Usually , the valedictions of old-boy poets are addressed to writers just above them on poetry 's wobbly squash ladder — thus Wright addresses his hello-and-goodbyes to C. H. Sissons , David Gascoyne , Charles Causeley ( Do you remember how we met/In the studio of Patrick Swift … ) , and George Barker ( So long it is since first we met , /And in another world , it seems , /Where , out of pocket , down at heels , /Night after night in Rathbone Place … ) |
| 29 | She willed her eyes to remain open until she felt her sister drift away from her into sleep , and then she prodded her ; Caterina groaned , but did not wake . |
| 30 | She held the receiver away from her with distaste . |