Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begged pardon at once for — being so free as to presume I will be read but then , ma'am , you must blame yourself for encouraging in me that letter-writing soul . |
| 2 | I am writing to let you know about the arrangements for returning to you those items from the SRO which were kindly lent to our Robert Adam exhibition , ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ . |
| 3 | Jim Rodgers said a delegation of UUP councillors was still awaiting a meeting with the Security Minister after writing to him ten days ago . |
| 4 | So if you are reading this , the kind gentleman or the young mother , thank you so very much for looking after me that day . |
| 5 | WE had a lovely time in Lourdes , I want to thank everyone for looking after us both . |
| 6 | Well it 's more for swimming for us two |
| 7 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 8 | Patrick 's recovery , soon to be the subject of an article in the Lancet , was now , as Ludens pointed out to Gildas , in danger of being taken for granted by them all . |
| 9 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 10 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 11 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 12 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 13 | I 've never thought of looking at it that way before . ’ |
| 14 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 15 | This uses the technically-defined Ocean as above , except that all the hiccups that interrupt the passage of its boundary have been removed by the relatively simple process of granting to it all of the so-called ‘ marginal seas ’ to which logic ( and political reality ) suggest it can lay claim . |
| 16 | It 's the thought of going through it all again , you see , it 's so upsetting … |
| 17 | be good that a such a er erm show what a perfect family how they sort of go through it all . |
| 18 | Right now she wondered how she had felt capable of raging at him this morning . |
| 19 | I would be addressing a putt and instead of thinking about it some political problem would come to mind . |
| 20 | Yes , that was my husband 's way of proposing to me all those years ago and we have indeed watched many horror movies together since — but it was n't very romantic , was it ? |
| 21 | Well , if you want something to drink to , this one will make you laugh — I was actually nurturing the idea of working for you one day . |
| 22 | But even when extreme and prolonged , they have a strange tickle of meaning in them that becomes more of a mystery as faith grows . |
| 23 | While some studies have concentrated on only one of these measures others have endeavoured to draw conclusions with regard to them both , and it seems important to consider both in any comprehensive review of this issue . |
| 24 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 25 | Oh well reply the girl I used to work with wrote to me this morning . |
| 26 | with that them four with have with them four hour |
| 27 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 28 | However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others . |
| 29 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 30 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |