Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a happy chance he became acquainted with ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v. ] and his circle , through whom he also met William Morris [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | I would also I think put in a word for the work of the joint po policy panel erm which is shared between this committee and the social services committee because it seems to me that it is not for us to be thinking that there is a group of children for who nursery education is necessary er or desirable and a different group of children for whom something else erm is necessary and desirable , largely because of their parents ' position . |
| 4 | That done , she went over to the school playground to face the forty or more children for whom she alone would be responsible that day . |
| 5 | Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him . |
| 6 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 7 | I told David Ennals , for whom I quickly formed some sympathy , that I would like to think about it . |
| 8 | My inclination was to decline , but as that would have been discourteous in the extreme to Wilson , for whom I then had enormous respect , I agreed to see him . |
| 9 | He taught me a lot and was also a good type of person for whom I always have had a very high regard . |
| 10 | ‘ Ancient person , ’ [ began Gooseneck ] , ‘ for whom I All the flattering youth defy , Long be it ere thou grow old , Aching , shaking , crazy , cold ; But still continue as thou art , Ancient person of my heart . |
| 11 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 12 | In the course of this success he also travelled abroad on at least two occasions : in 1787 he visited Paris , where his youngest brother , the inventor and pamphleteer William Playfair [ q.v. ] , was then the agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio — and for whom he later made abortive designs for an ideal ‘ American City ’ — while in 1792–3 he was in Italy , where his itinerary included the Greek temples of Paestum . |
| 13 | Now , their main hopes rest on the striker Dariusz Dziekanowski , a deep disappointment to his countrymen when Poland lost to Gary Lineker 's hat-trick in Monterey in 1986 but lately revived by a transfer to Celtic , for whom he vainly scored four goals in that extraordinary roller-coaster of a European tie against Partizan Belgrade at Parkhead 13 days ago . |
| 14 | He practically ignored Adam for whom he now felt a deep , distasteful antipathy . |
| 15 | He has constructed a model of the route in the Stalybridge workshop of climbing wall manufacturers Bendcrete , for whom he now works . |
| 16 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |
| 17 | He also found service with Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] , a leading political rival of Langton and Poer , whom Elias none the less assisted with the foundation of monastic houses in Selborne and Titchfield , and for whom he subsequently acted as executor . |
| 18 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |
| 19 | For them its most significant feature was freedom from fear . |
| 20 | And when someone indicates his willingness to work for them they naturally suspect he is a plant . |
| 21 | It is those who had no proclivity towards will making about whom we most wish to know . |
| 22 | He knows what fondness I have for him , but he 's got no illusions about whom I really want . |
| 23 | The candidate elected fifth , McKay , was again Unionist , and the runner-up , Murray , again SDLP with a difference between them which well exceeded the number of non-transferable votes . |
| 24 | THE SPEAKER — Ideal job for someone who just likes to watch . |
| 25 | The cake I had eaten ( thoughtfully , and in the true spirit ) had been meant for someone no longer able to make cake for herself ; the apple for someone who no longer had a garden . |
| 26 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 27 | This was not ‘ plausible deniability ’ , the provision of a believable cover for someone who already knew the facts ; it was , Poindexter agreed , ‘ absolute ’ deniability , ‘ the ability of the President to deny knowing anything about it , and be very truthful in that process . |
| 28 | For someone who so obviously thrives on holding court , Shaun is neither ranting nor railing , the bragging and bullshit which characteristically pepper his interviews are conspicuous by their absence . |
| 29 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 30 | For a person who 's dedicated it must be a very rewarding job , but for someone who only comes here to work it must be blooming hard . |