Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what about attitudes to you as a woman ? |
| 2 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 3 | I venture to ask , again , for your permission to pay her my addresses , and for marriage between us at an early date . |
| 4 | The discussion that follows will examine the imperfections in the market for control and then consider the wider implications of reliance on it as a disciplinary mechanism . |
| 5 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 6 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 8 | He turned her to face him , lifted her lace veil , and the symbolic act sent a convulsive shudder of desire through her as a thought shot like fire into her mind . |
| 9 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 10 | ‘ Political in the sense that if I threw this glass of water over you in an interview , that would be a political act . |
| 11 | They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human . |
| 12 | However they may express his uniqueness , they must say of Jesus of Nazareth that there was a revelation of God through him in a way in which this is not true of you or me . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you said you had a lot of respect for him as a reporter ? ’ |
| 14 | One friend who watched their relationship deteriorate points to Prince Charles 's disinterest and total lack of respect for her at a time when Diana badly needed help . |
| 15 | She felt an aura of sadness around her like a pall . |
| 16 | Holding a joint of beef before him on an outstretched arm , he would wave his free hand over its surface in a gesture approaching a mystical rite , conferring upon the excellence of his merchandise a value far in excess of what the none-too-prosperous housewives of Reine hoped to pay . |
| 17 | Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street . |
| 18 | The club 's record buy can put months of frustration behind him in a vital five-match fortnight . |
| 19 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 20 | One would expect that if , in pursuing a matter of concern to him as a Member of Parliament , a Member wrote a defamatory letter to the Minister in charge of the department concerned , privilege would attach . |
| 21 | and his own sort of vision of it as a creature . |
| 22 | of pressure on you from an awful lot of other sources , so do n't worry about it . |
| 23 | Crystal Palace , meanwhile , have the look of relegation about them after a Richard Shaw own goal and the dismissal of Lee Sinnott summed up their day . |
| 24 | And as a matter of fact , as a matter of fact , the Germans th th th had thought that he would be of value to them at a later stage , because he was er he was shipped to Germany , and er er I understand that he died in Germany er at the latter end of er of of er of the of the war , the Second World War . |
| 25 | He is wearing long white shorts with a black band , he is perfectly poised , arms outstretched , slightly crouched , his arrow-like board barely carving the water with one rail , spraying out a tail of whitewater behind him like a comet moving through space . |
| 26 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 27 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 28 | There was considerable pressure for actions against them from a sanctimonious middle class , some of whose members held extraordinary delusions . |
| 29 | I did not find the CIEFL 's supposed ‘ elitist ’ image reflected in the attitudes of its staff , who were without exception friendly , and who entered into discussions with me in a spirit of lively and good-humoured controversy . |
| 30 | In the mid-to-late 1970s , while building her business , she had to cope not only with prejudice against headhunting , but with prejudice against her as a woman . |