Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 2 | Unscrupulous model agencies and sponsors claim she is under contract to them and owes them part of her winnings . |
| 3 | One day the farmer thought , " I could increase those rabbits : make them part of my farm — their meat , their skins . |
| 4 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |
| 5 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 6 | So you 've got tooth number forty one , thirty eight , you see but you ai n't got all them teeth in your head . |
| 7 | At I prepared to return to Britain , several of my relatives gave me copies of their identity cards , the deed for their houses and even the ownership documents for their property . |
| 8 | I was somehow reversing that pivotal moment in my eidetic career eight years before , when Mr Broadhurst had bade me look in his waistcoat pocket and then made his move . |
| 9 | Giles had a remarkable ability to bring out the best in his students and juniors , and by conveying his faith in them he gave them faith in themselves . |
| 10 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 11 | But by God , they shall find me stick in their gullets and rip their bellies open . ’ |
| 12 | The coca takes the edge off their appetites and brings them luck in their search for tin . |
| 13 | I says , well I picked them forms for you and everything . |
| 14 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 15 | ‘ Just tell them lunatics o' yours to lay off or I shall 'ave to bring in the heavy mob . |
| 16 | The Dwarfs sent word to the Dwarf capital of Karaz a Karak high in the Worlds Edge Mountains , explaining that the Night Goblins were virtually holding them prisoners within their own citadel and that without reinforcements it could only be a matter of time before the Dwarfs were defeated . |
| 17 | And they 're normally in some , e , windows that you have them checks for them is n't there ? |
| 18 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 19 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 20 | Francis had me watch over him since he was a kid and his mother could n't cope . |
| 21 | LADY DAVERS : God give me patience with thee . |
| 22 | Can you put some of them scraps in it ? |
| 23 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's me present from me to you . ’ |
| 25 | No , cos it 's got all them herbs on it . |
| 26 | I skirted the dike district too — or at any rate two big chicks denied me entry to their purple sanctum . |
| 27 | She vividly remembers the ‘ bedder ’ carrying her heavy suitcase upstairs for her and saying knowing ‘ It must be all them contraceptives in it . ’ |
| 28 | Aah 've allus warned me lads against it , but Aah 'll set t'record straight . |
| 29 | You 've heard me talk about him . ’ |
| 30 | Did you ever hear them talk about them smuggling the whisky through the glen ? |