Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 2 | Attempts are made to route them into low-level manual work regardless of ability or level of motivation for further education , and discrimination in entry to training schemes acts as a further block to employment and careers ( Wrench , 1987 , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Busy executives should not be bothered by trifling matters , so the receptionist must learn how to classify calls and route them to the person best suited to deal with them . |
| 4 | It is thought that those who occupied the Malvern hill forts may have herded their cattle down the Worcestershire drove-ways to pasture them on Longdon Marsh in the summers before the Roman conquest . |
| 5 | Richard Carlile told Francis Place of his belief that women ‘ had an almost constant desire for copulation ; the customs of society alone , I think , debar them from it ’ . |
| 6 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 7 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 8 | You 've got items to be discussed , and then you 've got an ability on the right-hand side them to resequence them . |
| 9 | Is n't this the best thing to do with a lock them in their office ? |
| 10 | Though most developed countries deplore such practices , most either practice them from time to time — as Britain did in its arms dealing with Saudi Arabia — or else turn a blind eye when it suits them . |
| 11 | ‘ My mum used to monster me for coming home so late . |
| 12 | What mean you by that ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to press-gang you into doing something you 're not happy with , so if you have any reservations just say so . |
| 14 | But that wo n't stop the timeshare touts trying to soft-soap you into buying abroad . |
| 15 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 16 | She used to mind you in them days you there was no er fitted carpets on your floor . |
| 17 | ‘ If you do n't make more effort to be civil , I may regret fishing you from the sea on your arrival . |
| 18 | If you 'd planned to set his mind like glue on wedding you to this Islesman , you could n't have done better . |
| 19 | The effect would be similar to something like and they did in fact publicize it in English , except that the verb in Arabic would be in theme position ( literally : qad publicize-they-it in fact ) . |
| 20 | For this implies that if there is an unexpected rise in demand in period t consumers will not be able to buy the quantity of the good they at time period t - 1 , or ex ante , considered optimal at the set price . |
| 21 | And she 'd wheel him from from their house right up to the station . |
| 22 | It seemed , at that moment , to distress her above all others . |
| 23 | He could n't distress her with his own , raw , terrible dilemma . |
| 24 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 25 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 26 | As you will have observed , your wife was not pleased to see me ; she remained impatient of my attentions throughout , and the only prof it from the visit is my own . |
| 27 | I am certain that your wife is not the only one who would prof it from its wider deployment . |
| 28 | There was no prof it in these thoughts . |
| 29 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
| 30 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |