Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 2 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 3 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 4 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 5 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 6 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 7 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 8 | ‘ Which is one thing about me the murderer does n't know . |
| 9 | ‘ Through me the defendants tender their sincere apologies to the plaintiff for the distress she was caused by the publication of the article . ’ |
| 10 | Those at St Germain never questioned the validity of James II 's acts as King , and for them the Revolution remained totally unjustifiable . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for them the person who rented the place did n't know that the stables across the yard are let separately as a holiday cottage . ’ |
| 12 | For them the choice has been an entry level model pared to the bone , the used car lot or an east European ‘ cheapie ’ . |
| 13 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 14 | He was working in the parks just now so he was back in , and apparently he 'd had to go round and baby-sit for them the night before . |
| 15 | Otherwise Toby was father , mother and elder brother to the boys , and on the whole he enjoyed himself , creating for them the home he felt he had never had himself . |
| 16 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 17 | The Day was rounded off with a programme of display items from a variety of teams , including class teams , the National Display Team and our special 55+ team — for them the day was a successful dress rehearsal for their performance at the Age Concern Festival at the Royal Albert Hall the following week . |
| 18 | Not for them the Pimms and champagne . |
| 19 | For them the MacSharry treatment is grim : slashed prices , grants that taper away with increasing size of farm , and good land forced to lie fallow . |
| 20 | These particular ones wo n't be going that far , but for them the Church of England will never be the same again . |
| 21 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | For them the issue is not how good or bad the ‘ treatment ’ they receive is , but that they receive no treatment at all . |
| 23 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 24 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 25 | For them the problem does not exist . |
| 26 | For them the dangers of infertility — real or imagined — may far outweigh the dangers of fertility . |
| 27 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 28 | For them the twin notions of ‘ education ’ and ‘ schooling ’ , which are still locked together in everyday parlance , are beginning to tear apart , and there is an uncomfortable sense that the latter may no longer be the best vehicle for the delivery of the former . |
| 29 | For them the Phillips curve was a statistical mirage , a trompe l'oeil . |
| 30 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |