Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 2 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 3 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 4 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 5 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 6 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 7 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 8 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 10 | I 'll question you about them in one hour . ’ |
| 11 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 12 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |
| 13 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 14 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 15 | In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set . |
| 16 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 17 | ‘ It would n't actually trouble me if men thought about me in that way . |
| 18 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 19 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 20 | We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly . |
| 21 | Altogether then er , an encouraging set of results and I 'll hand you over to Frank to take us through them in more detail . |
| 22 | Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them . |
| 23 | Look out for them at major department stores . |
| 24 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |
| 25 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 26 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 27 | The areas ripe for action are legion : working to reduce the costs of energy to industry 's intensive users by gaining access for them to European supply grids , and by lobbying other European governments to withdraw subsidies from their competitors in other countries ; pressing for the even enforcement of regulations across all European Community countries ; or even in assisting British companies to win major contracts in countries with a less ‘ hands-off ’ approach to industry . |
| 28 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 29 | How ironic that we can , and do , produce our own offspring and become responsible for them without any preparation , any consideration as to our fitness for the job ! |
| 30 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |