Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 2 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 3 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 4 | ‘ When Benn beat Galvano he was caught with counters but was able to walk through them because the Italian was not a puncher . |
| 5 | A mixed feeling of excitement and fear flowed through me as the idea took control . |
| 6 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 7 | Poverty is a more pressing problem for them than the greenhouse effect . |
| 8 | Because their reading skills are poor too , many reports end up in the waste bin — which is a better place for them than the filing cabinet . |
| 9 | Since Mr Morton and Mr Langsam are the sole shareholders , it was entirely a matter for them whether the profits were distributed as dividend or salary . |
| 10 | Cricketers were no longer even financially privileged workers and there was no representative body to fight for them until the Cricketers ' Association was formed in 1968 . |
| 11 | names for them because the stegosaurus has got teeny weeny front feet at the front and huge back legs |
| 12 | Most of the works , which had no reserves , were bought by private collectors for figures up to 70% below what Lesieutre — stoically present on the front row — had paid for them when the art market was booming . |
| 13 | It will not be much fun for them when the weather is bad . |
| 14 | People on legal aid will only be able to get the most inexperienced lawyers to work for them if a plan to set fixed hourly rates goes ahead , the Law Society warns . |
| 15 | She searched for words , and was still searching for them as the front door opened and Herr Nordern came in . |
| 16 | The flame that sparkled in its heart was the same fire that had flared between them since the beginning . |
| 17 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 18 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 19 | The males do like to set up a territory , and minor skirmishes can break out between them if the tank is not large enough to allow two or three separate domains . |
| 20 | As Sarah 's stepmother , Susan Ferguson said : ‘ Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by . |
| 21 | And , strangely , the pain receded , replaced by the absolute intimacy and physical trust between them as the honeymoon took them deeper and deeper into the waters of sexual love . |
| 22 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 23 | It 's probably easier for me than the other three , but then they are such good players . ’ |
| 24 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 25 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 26 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 27 | Bryzgin at the press conference said , ‘ It was easy for me because the others had achieved a wide margin so that I felt sure . ’ |
| 28 | Says David Stokes : ‘ My parents said they would by them for me when the time was right but I would be too embarrassed to ask . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a lucky day for me when the storm washed you up on my island , my darling . ’ |
| 30 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |