Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 2 | All of these guidelines , many of them well-intentioned and prepared with care , have been aimed at making primary schools fulfil a predetermined function — to prepare young children for the secondary stage and to give them enthusiasm for learning . |
| 3 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 4 | , Current editions of the UK half-million ICAO Aeronautical Charts have scattered across them pairs of numbers printed in blue , one large figure followed by a smaller one , thus : for example . |
| 5 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 6 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 7 | ’ All them kind of things . |
| 8 | He knows all about them kind of things , I do n't well I knew where they come |
| 9 | Them kind of things . |
| 10 | He used to come and visit me all the time , he brought money and a radio and them kind of luxuries . |
| 11 | Or trying to erm save but who wants to wear them kind of trousers ? |
| 12 | You know what I mean you know all them kind of Walkmans they ca n't be all four hundred pounds . |
| 13 | It 's just s'posed to be an argument but this will lead to up , like an argument of like them kind of buildings , are not like buildings , like tradition , to keep with the tradition . |
| 14 | Perhaps it er you do n't know where the stairs and what kind of stairs it is but them kind of units usually come to bits ours does . |
| 15 | Probably save them loads of money as well . |
| 16 | And I gave them loads of money , |
| 17 | No , you 're not supposed to give them loads of veg ! |
| 18 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 19 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | The short answer to counsel 's submission , founded on freedom of speech , is simply that that right , under our law , must be exercised subject to the law of defamation which affords everyone protection against injury to reputation by untrue imputation . |
| 21 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 22 | ‘ He said he wished me luck in case he did n't get the chance today . |
| 23 | They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit . |
| 24 | ‘ We were told by the teacher it was a mortal sin to touch them P of course we all did ! |
| 25 | Theatre staff know that no protective clothing yet devised will guard them 100% against exposure to HIV or Hepatitis B infection from the patient . |
| 26 | And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown . |
| 27 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 28 | It would take them hours to deprogramme those instructions . |
| 29 | That catches the familiar dictum that science explains particular events by generalizing and by making them cases of laws at work . |
| 30 | Three women two of them housewives with children have already joined the ranks of the firefighters in Cheshire . |