Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Look out for them at major department stores . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fen was leaving the well-worn path now to fight a way for them through giant cow parsley and into a beechwood offering shelter from prying eyes . |
| 14 | Beyond swing doors were the babies : mended harelips , and small creatures who had constructed for them by human skill gullet or anal opening or separate fingers with which the working cells and DNA during their gestation had failed to provide them . |
| 15 | But they also take scraps thrown out for birds , together with the bread and milk put out for them by well-meaning animal lovers . |
| 16 | Medieval women were not without authority in the familial and economic spheres even if there was no place for them in public politics . |
| 17 | This research aims to investigate how such factors shape the way this key group of employees are responding to their labour market situation and the career opportunities provided for them within high technology firms . |
| 18 | Youth-v-experience or perhaps it 's time a woman won in Stockton South The three candidates squaring up to each other in the battle for Stockton South are quick to use the differences that lie between them as political ammunition . |
| 19 | It was tacitly agreed between them from long experience . |
| 20 | ‘ In my work it 's second nature for me to double check all factual research . |
| 21 | ‘ My hands and feet a bit , but that 's usual for me in hot weather . ’ |
| 22 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 23 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 24 | ‘ I would look after her with loving care , Mr Wormwood , and I would pay for everything . |
| 25 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 26 | You 'll never make it , ’ roared Rocky and took off after him with surprising speed for one of his size and bulk . |
| 27 | He shot after him at high speed . |
| 28 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 29 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 30 | I looked up and saw Jamila hurrying towards me in black T-shirt and white shorts . |