Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 And props ; what do you do about them at your audition ?
2 Talk about them with your partner and write down your memories .
3 ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth .
4 In the book Tracy does n't tell us anything about them except their names merely that she could n't work with them .
5 I half expected five-year-olds to be making funny remarks about them behind my back .
6 I paint the words and leave others to think about them in their own hearts . ’
7 No material is given about their activities as Mufti , and no anecdotes are related about them in their capacity as Mufti , though something is related about each in his capacity as kadi .
8 The ruins of so many Indian palaces — Mandu , for example , or the great Hindu capital of Hampi — still retain an aura of great dignity about them in their wreckage , but in the Red Fort that aura is notable by its absence .
9 This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be .
10 However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v .
11 You learn about them from their words and actions , and there is no elaborate description .
12 I think once he had one off me on his neck and erm
13 By the time the shipmaster had practically blasted the sail off them with his cursing , the tide was carrying the lymphad sideways up into the mouth of the Sound .
14 For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise .
15 But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back .
16 I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them .
17 People were whispering about me behind my back — smiling to my face of course — but whispering behind my back .
18 Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories .
19 Charity went through them to her new place of employ and smiled with delight .
20 He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes .
21 Then she elbowed her way through them with her head high .
22 Have a read through them at your leisure .
23 You will probably be surprised at what a different experience it is actually speaking the words rather than running through them in your head .
24 My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead .
25 Thus , if S subscribes for 200 of these shares and pays the company for them at their face ( par ) value , S 's future personal liability for any debts incurred by the company is nil .
26 It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination .
27 Mrs Wadland 's husband disappeared during the lambing season , the busiest time of year for them at their farm in Woodford Halse , Northamptonshire .
28 Sinatra became so fond of the Lawfords that he kept a special room for them at his home .
29 ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ .
30 The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground .
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