Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the funnel through whom all subsequent experience of the Spirit of God would be mediated . |
| 2 | Your father and I talked about nothing else last night . |
| 3 | But there were also new people arriving in London for whom even cheap property was out of their price range . |
| 4 | Not so my students however , for whom even simple things can cause immediate confusion . |
| 5 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 6 | So far ‘ King James III and VIII ’ , for whom all this sacrifice was being made , had not yet set foot in either of his kingdoms . |
| 7 | It followed the taste of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert , for whom highly coloured bedding plants had been newly fashionable ; successive generations at Balmoral , monarchs and men alike , had valued continuity above innovation . |
| 8 | The other five millions include the labourers and less skilled workers , male and female , whose maximum wages only suffice for the necessities and barest decencies of existence , and for whom therefore any mischance means penury , passing swiftly into pauperism . ’ |
| 9 | He realized the importance of kinship systems for the Indians and how for them most social relationships were seen in terms of who was the child of whom and who was married to whom . |
| 10 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 11 | The Little Avon was used to feed the millpond via a half mile long leat , the mill powered by five large internal wheels , producing between them over 40 hp . |
| 12 | At the time , power for Oil Mill was provided by a pair of water wheels , generating between them around 50 hp . |
| 13 | When Judith Hollman , whilst working at the Royal College as a model , saw Minton again , she sensed that there was now between them very little rapport . |
| 14 | It seemed probable to Allen that there were still four verderers but that now they had between them only three horses . |
| 15 | The two small boats , containing between them about 40 men , had no option but to row towards the shore and duly grounded around 3.30 am on the morning of Thursday 23 April . |
| 16 | " Will you pose for me properly some time ? " |
| 17 | And she come knocking for me about two month 's later . |
| 18 | ‘ Things were going wrong for me earlier this year and I was losing games . |
| 19 | UFO was exotic , but it was n't nearly as memorable for me as Middle Earth . |
| 20 | He shrugged the shirt off his ludicrously broad shoulders . |
| 21 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 22 | I took refuge , therefore , in my customary routines sketching a few brief memoranda for Monday morning , removing the paper clips strewn about my otherwise tidy desk , checking that the main office windows were all shut , even although the Security staff would be along later , and that was strictly speaking their job , and that all the typewriters had been unplugged from the wall sockets . |
| 23 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 24 | The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience . |
| 25 | During his nearly three years as effective day-to-day leader of the Cultural Revolution , Chen , along with Jiang Qing and Mao 's security chief Kang Sheng , helped orchestrate campaigns of vilification and persecution against thousands of party cadres , including the then head of state Liu Shaoqi , who later died alone in a bank vault used as a cell . |
| 26 | He was so tied to London , and had been especially so during his increasingly unhappy marriage , that his knowledge of the country , even the Home Counties , was patchy . |
| 27 | During his relatively short time with us , Paul was seconded to Wood Group Industrial Controls [ WGIC ] for an initial period of two months which ultimately stretched to five months . |
| 28 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 29 | It is noteworthy that the Roman Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583–1643 ) published his two books of Arie in Florence in 1630 during his fairly brief service there . |
| 30 | ‘ Jock ’ Barber left 261 Squadron on posting to A.H.Q. The last of the original Hurricane pilots still with the squadron , during his almost ten months of operations he had flown over 90 sorties , claimed three and one shared shot down and at least three damaged . |