Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As for Wolverhampton 's budget , there was a serious overrun last year of some £2 million , including on the operation of something called the Jennie Lee centre . |
| 32 | Woolley took out his revolver and blew a hole through Hawthorn 's despatch case . |
| 33 | MCI accredited programmes leading to these qualifications are offered through Henley 's Corporate Programmes Division and a number of Approved Centres . |
| 34 | Suicide , Velvets , MBV , Cocteaus , Spacemen and even The Monkees spring to mind at some point during Stereolab 's swimming excursions into your subconscious . |
| 35 | By the late 1960s , Peat Marwick Mitchell 's headhunting division was earning $2m. annually with 20 consultants , an impressive performance considering the much lower salaries paid at that time ; but it clashed with their accountancy clients , and the top management did not care much for Korn 's apparently pushy style . |
| 36 | She felt rather sorry for Sarah 's rejects and often tried , unsuccessfully , to be asked out by them . |
| 37 | ‘ This was a tragic death and I have every sympathy for Sarah 's parents . |
| 38 | and then go sa sa straight on down that road as it takes us down onto Castle Lane to then turn off for Sarah 's . |
| 39 | ‘ But Fand — what about Fincara 's spell ? |
| 40 | Steve Woodward was regarded as NZ 's senior umpire after Fred Goodall retired . |
| 41 | For mum 's peace of mind there is a doctor on call , too , and a well run nursery with a nursery nurse . |
| 42 | To buy the fruitgums for Mum 's pet |
| 43 | I was tempted to look for Mum 's name so I checked that she was really asleep , although I did n't care if she woke up or not . |
| 44 | No more was said except for Mum 's moans and groans as she struggled to get the bedding upstairs to the attic . |
| 45 | He 'll have to agree for Mum 's sake . ’ |
| 46 | But Eileen replied reasonably , ‘ None of us was keen on her , Anne , but we hid it for Mum 's sake and Grandma never realised it . |
| 47 | A quick blast in the microwave for Mum 's tea and it 's back to the living room . |
| 48 | Not large enough , though , for William 's son John , who became the Member of Parliament for Wilton in 1701 and subsequently built on this exquisite face to his childhood home . |
| 49 | Shortly afterwards , following disagreements between the two , Peter exchanged the share he had retained in Longfords for William 's share in Dunkirk . |
| 50 | The closest Continental precedents for William 's work are at Reims and Laon . |
| 51 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |
| 52 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 53 | Nora read rapidly through Arabella 's , throwing out her own summaries : ‘ They have a new cook … very good … |
| 54 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 55 | The recovery programme was also seen as an attempt by Keating to heal divisions in the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) after his 1991 leadership battle with former Prime Minister Bob Hawke [ for Keating 's replacement of Hawke see p. 38675 ] . |
| 56 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 57 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 58 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 59 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 60 | ‘ Of kindness yet , for the sake of auld lang syne , ’ ran absurdly through Pascoe 's mind . |