Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or just heard about it from your dad ? ’ |
| 2 | About 60 per cent of self-poisoners take psychotropic drugs that have been prescribed for them in their overdoses ( Hawton et al. 1977 ) . |
| 3 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 4 | The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust . |
| 5 | An optional helicopter ride down the canyon can be arranged for you by your escort . |
| 6 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 7 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
| 8 | Because our computer programme has been specially designed for us by our Information Technology Manager , we have never experienced any problems in converting our English clients ' instructions to Scots ! |
| 9 | Luckily we have the example of rights won for us by our forebears whose fight is continued by the Ramblers Association . |
| 10 | Luckily we have the example of rights won for us by our forebears whose fight is continued by the Ramblers Association . |
| 11 | Now it 's a system you go through if you break the law , you know we have an education system which is organised for us by our local community who builds the school , who runs the school , who 's on the governors of those schools . |
| 12 | We grew up together , I 've looked after her by myself from when she was two , which was when I split up from her father . |
| 13 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 14 | I am quite clear what is expected of me in my job . |
| 15 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 16 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 17 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 18 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 19 | Part Three — Conduct — lists in detail what is expected of you in your dealings with the public and your colleagues . |
| 20 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 21 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 22 | Why expend energy unearthing the potentially cultish properties of a technological novelty when its cultishness has been deliberately programmed into it by its sly devisers ? |
| 23 | I suppose I got more bullied into it through me family really , to get off it , so I never really had the push to come off it . |
| 24 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 25 | He had then suggested she come with him to his house to help unload . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got a special licence in my pocket ; if I 'd been obliged to go to Paris you 'd have come with me as my wife . ’ |
| 27 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 28 | By s.4(2) : A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his direction , except … |
| 29 | If he had been absent I would have looked upon it as something of a hollow victory . |
| 30 | Today 's senior citizens may complain that they do not receive the respect or consideration that was expected from them by their parents , but most of them welcome the far more open and equal relationship which exist between them and their adult children . |