Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 3 | She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children . |
| 4 | What we ha If we do n't support them during that period , how on earth do we get them to be two years old ? |
| 5 | The words of the Principal , , to the graduates of 1992 , and the fundamental reasoning behind the launch two years ago of the University 's Environmental Initiative to imbue staff and students with an awareness of environmental problems and the resolve to confront them through integrated teaching , research and institutional behaviour . |
| 6 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 7 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 8 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 9 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 10 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 11 | and push them through that loop , it looks |
| 12 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 13 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |
| 14 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 15 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
| 16 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 17 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 18 | Progressives , and radicals supporting reorganization of the schools and the introduction of non-streaming , are carrying their attack upon the grammar schools ' élitism into the curriculum , dismantling the traditional subjects by rearranging them through interdisciplinary work , projects and themes . |
| 19 | The problem of clarifying a sensory structure can be eased by putting the trio into dynamic , harmonic or GP series and then linking them through another dimension . |
| 20 | Still later there are codicils in which the testator addresses both the initial and substitute heirs , and entrusts them through another trust clause with payment of all dispositions : ‘ Lucius Titius to his initial and substitute heirs : greetings . |
| 21 | Sarah had joined them through another miracle , a cloak thrown by Mary Jacobus which upheld her feet on the water . |
| 22 | ‘ We have put people through a lot of training , ’ added Anthony , ‘ and will be putting them through more training , aimed at changing attitudes and leading people , whatever function they are in , to ask more frequently . |
| 23 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 24 | Fen was leaving the well-worn path now to fight a way for them through giant cow parsley and into a beechwood offering shelter from prying eyes . |
| 25 | Surely in a sense you 're unfair , for example , to the gifted children by putting them through this mode . |
| 26 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 27 | It shares ear markings with the tiger , very probably for the same reason , to provide a signal for the cubs to follow , especially at night , when their mother leads them through dense jungle . |
| 28 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 29 | The LRCs have a maximum speed of 200 km/h , but are limited to 155 km/h because of the need to timetable them between slower freight trains . |
| 30 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |