Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 2 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 3 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 4 | It was a very ill-ordered household , Mary and Claire looking after it between them in a slapdash way . |
| 5 | She would have liked to refuse his offer , she really would , but her stomach was growling with hunger and the thought of nothing in it till the morning was more than she could bear . |
| 6 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 7 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 8 | Once you 've found a style you like , it always helps to take a picture of it with you to the salon . |
| 9 | Cos , actually , the other thing about defenders hauling people down like that , you know , how many times when a forward 's through one on one on a goal keeper does he score ? |
| 10 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 11 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
| 12 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 13 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 14 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 15 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 16 | If he had been absent I would have looked upon it as something of a hollow victory . |
| 17 | So you 'll have to go in yourself with them for the interview . " |
| 18 | ‘ She would talk to me about everything but the subject that mattered . |
| 19 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 20 | The Captain , not having the names readily to mind , dropped the matter and chuckled to himself about it for a week . |
| 21 | Yeah , but if you do n't invite them , tha , I 'll talk to you about it in a minute . |
| 22 | In the unlikely event that we fail to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking or they are not of a reasonable standard , then we accept responsibility whether caused by our employees , agents or suppliers , save that ( i ) we shall not accept responsibility or liability for death , bodily injury or illness caused to you or others named on your booking form , except as set out below and ( ii ) we limit our responsibility or liability in respect of carriage by air , sea or land to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage . |
| 23 | If confirmed transport is cancelled , changed or delayed by more than six hours or hotel is changed or if we are unable to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking due to war , threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , disaster , fire , flood ( including fire or flood in hotels ) or bad weather we can not accept liability or responsibility and compensation is not payable but provided the holiday has not begun we will offer alternative travel routing or alternative travel date or alternative hotel and advise additional cost if any or you may elect to cancel and we will offer a full refund of monies paid . |
| 24 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 25 | ‘ Dammee woman , how can I set my mind to anything with you in a tiz ? |
| 26 | ‘ And do n't talk about it to anyone outside the shop . |
| 27 | Stirling never breathed a word about it to anyone on the Ops. side here . |
| 28 | But the band stuck by me , worked out a routine with me , and busked through it with me for the rest of the run . |
| 29 | Major Tzann could not help regarding it as something of a personal affront , an act of mute insubordination . |
| 30 | She 'd come across one like it in a house of ill-repute where it was known as a squirt . |