Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 3 | Their migration route to the Alaskan feeding grounds takes them through an area of ocean which is cluttered with drift-nets . |
| 4 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |
| 5 | Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 7 | Delaunay , who earlier in the year had held an important exhibition together with Marie Laurencin at the Galerie Barbazanges , did not show at the Section d'Or , and wrote an open letter to Vauxcelles : ‘ I beg to inform you that I do not subscribe to the erroneously held opinions of Monsieur Hourcade which proclaim me as a founder of Cubism together with four of my colleagues and friends . |
| 8 | I will first state how the matter strikes me as a matter of impression . |
| 9 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 10 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 'S earnest captain Tim Robinson does n't strike me as a student of W.C. Fields , but recent events at Trent Bridge suggest he may not be unacquainted with his philosophy . |
| 11 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 12 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 13 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 14 | Some people feel them as a kind of outrage and violation , and Boden was a strong-minded and passionate man . |
| 15 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 16 | They can let successful managers use them as a kind of bonus or incentive . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ Writers like Richard Streeton tell me they carry it around with them as a work of reference , using it to find out whether odd events have happened before . |
| 18 | He scorned them as a man of action must despise all faint-hearts . |
| 19 | These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . |
| 20 | And having destroyed him , it was this other side of the ambivalence that came back to haunt them as a sense of guilt and deferred obedience , and out of guilt , they instituted the incest , the incest prohibition . |
| 21 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 22 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 23 | You can buy them as a hedge against inflation , or as a straightforward investment . |
| 24 | Some see care manager posts as a move into management while others view them as a progression of practice . |
| 25 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |
| 26 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 27 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 28 | He had a sneaking suspicion Philpott had members of staff whose sole function was to dig up the personal indiscretions of those people who could be beneficial to UNACO , then use them as a form of blackmail to get what he wanted . |
| 29 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 30 | If there is no particular justification for these categories , and they appear to be somewhat arbitrary , what faith can schools then have in them as a basis for review ? |