Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ It was an opportunity for everyone connected with the project , both BNFL staff and contractors , to bring in their families and explain what THORP is all about . |
| 2 | Its great for everyone connected with the club etc etc . |
| 3 | The whole chapter is ridiculous , for example when Alice asked to sit down she was told there was no room , by the characters already sitting there , yet there was plenty of room for everyone to move round the table several times before returning to their original places . |
| 4 | O'Neill said : ‘ It 's bloody awful for everyone associated with the horse and it has n't really sunk in yet . |
| 5 | Once he had gone away Wickham gave instructions for someone to go to the address in Fleet Street . |
| 6 | But as the development officer said , ‘ there are also a lot of people in need , so it 's very easy for someone to fall through the net ’ . |
| 7 | Particularly away to Stuttgart when Leeds were desperate for someone to hold onto the ball to give the defence some respite . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 9 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . |
| 10 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . ’ |
| 11 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
| 12 | There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up . |
| 13 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 14 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 15 | it 's not so bad for somebody living on the south coast |
| 16 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |
| 17 | It 's quite possible that there are one or two old gentlemen , but when one wants to find a new operative , one really is looking for somebody to come in the trade who will be with the firm , all being well , for a number of years . |
| 18 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 19 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 20 | Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area . |
| 21 | ‘ Darling Dolly should raise the spirits of everyone connected with the film industry , from tycoons to tea boys , ’ declared Marjorie Bilbow in the trade publication Today 's Cinema . |
| 22 | Palace fans of 1964–1973 owed a great deal to Dick Graham , who was the man who brought Palace back to the ‘ big-time ’ after years of obscurity , and who gave Palace the opportunity ( so admirably taken by Graham 's successor , Bert Head ) of achieving the dream of everyone connected with the Palace club — a place in Division One . |
| 23 | Then IBM trains the living daylights out of everyone left in the office , and moves many out into the front lines . |
| 24 | The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages . |
| 25 | Figures 1 and 2 represent graphically the overall level of participation in meaningful activity of everyone included in the study at each of the seven datapoints . |
| 26 | A small lump of nothing rolled across the floor , gathering substance , and coalesced into an unnoticed rat . |
| 27 | Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ? |
| 28 | There was a scuffle and the sound of someone running across the deck . |
| 29 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 30 | Certainly , in the group discussions ( Appendix II , section 3 ) , we found that people used this type of credit because of the ‘ service of someone coming to the house to collect ’ even when they were aware of the high cost involved . |