Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 2 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 3 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 4 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 5 | Mm , I 'm not sure about them you 'll have the headmaster turning up say I recognize everyone here |
| 6 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 7 | Most accommodation and transport is provided by independent suppliers , for whom we will accept responsibility on the terms set out as follows . |
| 8 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 9 | They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients . |
| 10 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 11 | Try smaller local companies who might benefit from some publicity or for whom you could attract extra business or perhaps create an enduring and prestigious work of art . |
| 12 | You , my comrade in arms , my friend for whom I would have given my life . ’ |
| 13 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 14 | ‘ Simon reckoned that after Sintra if he spoke about me you 'd get tense — though you did n't realise he noticed . |
| 15 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 16 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 17 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 18 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 19 | Through them he would know Christ . |
| 20 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
| 21 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 22 | Common Terns at present nest on an island in the pit , and it is to be hoped that when disturbance is too great for them they will move to the Local Nature Reserve at Rye Harbour , which includes a gravel pit with suitable islands . |
| 23 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 24 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 25 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
| 26 | If it means business for them I should think they should want to do more . |
| 27 | Yeah we should get sixty pound for them I should think . |
| 28 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 29 | If the maid had arrived and was waiting for them she would have to be driven back to Mondano . |
| 30 | It implies , however , a recognition that the minority who occupy powerful positions in British society are able to make choices , based neither upon notions of democracy nor upon calculations about who has power , about whom they will listen to or consult . |