Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 5 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It would n't actually trouble me if men thought about me in that way . |
| 12 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 13 | Altogether then er , an encouraging set of results and I 'll hand you over to Frank to take us through them in more detail . |
| 14 | The rebels held their fire till the dragoons were within ten yards [ 9 m ] of them , then replied with ‘ a very sharp , popping kind ’ of volley which did such execution that one bystander ‘ saw daylight through them in several places ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 17 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | Miles better probably than the Manager ever anticipated ; he 's delighted they 're up there , I tell ya and you know , it 's my old club and I 'm pleased for them in that way , but I wan na see us finish off well , but pass the ball . |
| 20 | Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country . |
| 21 | If noumenal things did exist , there would be no possibility of defining a " principle of individuation " for them in any case . |
| 22 | The committee said that because ministers occupied positions of power there were particular risks for them in any activity which overlaps the border between their public duties and private interests , however worthy the motives may be in any individual case . |
| 23 | There either is room for them in this society , and an eventual hearing ( whether pre- or post-martyrdom ) , or there is n't . |
| 24 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 25 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 26 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 27 | Corden said : ‘ I must admit I feel for them after that display . ’ |
| 28 | And the previous level of frankness in communication between the spouses about these matters can narrow or widen the possibility of stress between them during these communications in a hospital ward . |
| 29 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 30 | There was no bitterness between them at this stage . |