Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | do nothing for a fortnight of course . |
| 3 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 4 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
| 5 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 6 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 7 | In this situation the distance/number of links between the pair could be calculated from the ‘ shortest path ’ connecting them through a sequence of intermediate linked probes . |
| 8 | But , supposing we look at the same material from the standpoint of , say the authors of the Upanishads , with whom as a matter of fact I happen to agree . |
| 9 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |
| 10 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 11 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 12 | Mick looked at me for a couple of moments and , scratching his head , he replied If the Marines want you to play your bagpipes in their area , and you agree to do it , then you are all bloody mad . |
| 13 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh well , I suppose it wo n't hurt me for a couple of days . |
| 15 | The office can bloody do without me for a couple of days . |
| 16 | ‘ I have to go out ; can you live without me for a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 17 | She stayed with me for a couple of days before going on to Spain to my sister . |
| 18 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 19 | And can you join me for a bit of breaking and entering some time this evening ? " |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm told they might need me for a bit of PR work , but basically I gather I 'm going to be the technician permanently with the team . ’ |
| 21 | I figured me for a piece of the five G's . ’ |
| 22 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 23 | Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | If you intend to proceed with the appeal on your own , you should contact me for a copy of the relevant parts of the Sheriff Court process . |
| 25 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 26 | take me for a prat of the first order |
| 27 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 28 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 29 | Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street . |
| 30 | He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories . |