Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she 's so keen to save a spot of money then she wo n't thank you for cheating her of eight grand . ’ |
| 2 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 3 | After turning it through 180 degrees , re-install it to give increased adjustment capability in the required direction . |
| 4 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |
| 5 | On Nov. 21 the 15-member Security Council had recommended the approval of Boutros Ghali after electing him by 11 votes with four abstentions . |
| 6 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 7 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 8 | I was thinking of limiting it to 12 . |
| 9 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 10 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 11 | The story is told through the eyes of the crews who man the engines and it is an interesting way of conducting you over one of Britain 's most interesting and picturesque routes . |
| 12 | And especially not of aiming it at one of his friends . |
| 13 | If he played at West Brom there would always be the risk of losing him for three or four matches . ’ |
| 14 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 15 | France will find the challenge of defending the Davis Cup even more difficult than that of winning it in 1992 . |
| 16 | So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work . |
| 17 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 18 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 19 | What do you do , sort of buy them in fifty packs at Sainsburys ? |
| 20 | Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) . |
| 21 | Thank you for providing them in 1990 . |
| 22 | Thank you for providing me with two very appropriate slides of new housing in Ceredigion . |
| 23 | I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen . |
| 24 | Innocent laid an interdict on Norway because of the " royal " policies of its ruler , Sverre , who was resisting papal influence and the reception of the canon law and he reproved the archbishop , Eric , for removing it in 1204 , after Sverre had died and the fugitive bishops had been recalled . |
| 25 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 26 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 27 | Rub the meat with salt ( about a couple of tablespoonsful ) and let it stand overnight or at least a few hours before cutting it into 1 ½-inch thick strips along the grooves left by the bones . |
| 28 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 29 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 30 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |