Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 2 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 3 | Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent . |
| 4 | Before describing each of the methods in greater detail , one further point can be made about them as a whole . |
| 5 | Well Mick it 's now stage two of the er Anglo-Italian Cup , it 's Pisa tonight , er do you know anything about them as a team ? |
| 6 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 7 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 8 | I read about them in a book , ’ she said . |
| 9 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 10 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 11 | When we emerged we found the neighbours still standing around discussing what had happened , but Mum just pushed her way through them without a word . |
| 12 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 13 | He was crouching amidst the emptied-out debris of her possessions , sorting through them with a patience that was deceptively gentle . |
| 14 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 15 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 16 | Huge volumes of plant material flow through them like a river , all the day long . |
| 17 | ‘ He used to get through them like a packet of Polo mints apparently . |
| 18 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 19 | and let the breath flow through me in a song |
| 20 | Now , my happiness curls through me like a vine . |
| 21 | He stared at me , and his eyes went through me like a trident through a fish . |
| 22 | Just ask for them at a maternity clinic or child health clinic and show your Income Support payment book or , if you 're paid by girocheque , the letter that came with the girocheque . |
| 23 | Large transient hotels very often enter into agreements with certain airlines or travel agents whereby they will hold a number of rooms specifically for them on a guarantee basis . |
| 24 | He was sitting waiting for them with a bone in his mouth . |
| 25 | I personally think he suits their style more and will probably do good things for them for a while , until he gets bored , or dropped , or injured . |
| 26 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 27 | That 's an area where they 're not gon na get involved unless there 's an awful lot of money and yes , there is money , for them for a training budget , but certainly not enough to cover what would be lost if , if Tomlinson , and let's face it , if they win Tomlinson it will just continue . |
| 28 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 29 | Born on 12 April , 1941 , the only son of an electricity board worker , he was snapped up by his local club West Ham , and made his debut for them as a 17-year-old against Manchester United in 1958 . |
| 30 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |