Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them the twin notions of ‘ education ’ and ‘ schooling ’ , which are still locked together in everyday parlance , are beginning to tear apart , and there is an uncomfortable sense that the latter may no longer be the best vehicle for the delivery of the former . |
| 2 | Whereas for the Head of Department , evidence concerning professional competence was additionally available from two other sources ( examination results , curriculum management ) , for them the lesson visits constituted the only source of ‘ objective ’ evidence . |
| 3 | They were still prisoners of the attraction which , under the guise of antipathy , had arced between them the moment Nathan had entered the Customs office . |
| 4 | Between them the force curtain rippled and parted . |
| 5 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 6 | So many conductors — and I must say Furtwängler was sometimes one of these — create enormous crescendi ; and after them the music collapses . |
| 7 | Not only , she was thinking , did n't Arnie look after her the way Guido did , but , far more alarming , there was something else he 'd never done . |
| 8 | She said one of them the sex offender made her and the woman get into a bath of cold water fully-clothed . |
| 9 | and erm then some of the people like er er in London started out erm making shades or er fittings which were erm quite at home in the house er or in the office and erm these were , well that is one design of them the wall back is to match you see , er but you could equally er , put those into erm hotel bedroom or something or er hotel lounge somewhere there , erm or you can get them large with more lamps in them I think and all sorts of new designs were coming out mainly in , in plastic er and erm |
| 10 | To all of them the story pattern of Mary 's assent to God 's will at the Annunciation , enabling the birth of his Son who was involved with suffering , death , but also with resurrection and ascension in time , discloses a means of re-ordering ( literally transforming ) their own experience . |
| 11 | The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure . |
| 12 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 13 | The president vainly suggested Courtney , then Partridge , though like all three of them the record holder is from the North-East . |
| 14 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 15 | When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ . |
| 16 | While that argument would beg an important question , on the face of it the marriage laws do seem to promote the function of optimal outbreeding . |
| 17 | I 've got a copy of it the dustbin game . |
| 18 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |
| 19 | During the 1890s he attended dinners in Paris , moved in informed circles and had many friends in influential positions , amongst them the statesman Clemenceau ; he read newspapers , subscribed to journals and amassed a huge library ; he also kept abreast of political and cultural matters , having pronounced views on the Dreyfus Affair and initiating a subscription to acquire Monet 's Olympia for the nation . |
| 20 | Other powerful allies emerged , amongst them the Child Poverty Action Group and the Trade Union Congress ( House of Commons ( HOC ) , 1973 , Vol . |
| 21 | Beneath them the coal seams are buried and preserved for our miners today . |
| 22 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 23 | Lady Horne told them to sit whilst behind them the girl lit candles . |
| 24 | Mr King said : ‘ While Mr Kinnock and his front-benchers make out that Labour is a party which believes in nuclear defence , behind them the back benches are packed with those who believe exactly the opposite . |
| 25 | Behind them the rock face is bound together by the rope roots of the fig tree , and on the hillside above them are ravines thick with flowering Cape chestnuts ; above that level there are hillsides of succulents and , even higher , alpine pastures and more cliffs . |
| 26 | One needs the published histories of the towns and behind them the town records themselves . |
| 27 | Behind them the grandfather clock ticked seven slow seconds away . |
| 28 | Behind her the killing cold of night ; in front of her , black silhouette limned with jade and ruby , stood Zuleika . |
| 29 | Behind him the Mushroom Farm was ablaze . |
| 30 | He cried , ‘ Hey , you guys , come on , I 've got one , ’ but behind him the school yard was silent . |