Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 2 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 3 | The Bradley business now had the benefit of more than one representative calling regularly and Carrie played them off one against the other . |
| 4 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 5 | ‘ So you see me as something of a threat , ’ she mused , then shrugged . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's always struck me as something of a misogynist . |
| 7 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 8 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 9 | She knew nothing about him beyond the fact that he was immensely wealthy , the owner of the London-based Silver Star Navigation who for some strange reason had branched out into the fashion industry . |
| 10 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 11 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 12 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 13 | There 's nothing about it in the manifesto . |
| 14 | There is nothing about it in the rules ! |
| 15 | Well , first of all we told the people at the earliest opportunity we told the church members what we 've learnt told them about our of the advantages and our enthusiasm and commitment to the process . |
| 16 | A Fish will indeed eat the newly-hatched tadpoles of frogs and newts and regard them as something of a delicacy . |
| 17 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 18 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 19 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 20 | ‘ She would talk to me about everything but the subject that mattered . |
| 21 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He reminded me about it in the dressing room before the game , and if it 's said you 're not playing with enough desire you 've just got to swallow it and do the best you can . |
| 23 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 24 | For him to die of pneumonia was really a terrible waste and I think David harboured a little … you ca n't blame someone for something like a person dying tragically with pneumonia , but I think he felt his mother should have watched over him more carefully , but I suppose that 's like saying the cat got drowned , why was the puddle there ? |
| 25 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 27 | The loamy bat-dung crawled with poisonous six-inch millipedes , and at one point we automatically prostrated ourselves amongst them as a horde of disturbed bats swept towards us to escape . |
| 28 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 29 | You need someone with you for a while . ’ |
| 30 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |