Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [subord] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 2 | He 's more frightened of you than what you are of him , actually . |
| 3 | Yeah if if you know of one because we we have cir you know we have circulated and we have a sales exec that goes out |
| 4 | The mother puzzled Clara particularly , for Clelia evidently assumed that she needed no description or definition , and spoke of her as one whose name is a household word . |
| 5 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 6 | A child who actively seeks information is likely to make far better use of it than one who passively receives the same information as a chore and is constantly reminded how little s/he knows . |
| 7 | It is vitally important because non-verbal signals tell other people as much about you as what you actually say to them . |
| 8 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 9 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 10 | The trouble is , people register for er with them because they they 're offering |
| 11 | and have a word with him because he he knows what chutes is blocked up and what wants cleaning out . |
| 12 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 13 | Well I kept well I I got on alright with him cos he I were a lot younger and he used to give me sixpence to go and get some ice cream so as I them would be on their own a bit you see . |
| 14 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 15 | I think its because erm I do n't , I 'm not happy with mine because it it shows signs of ageing and it reminds me that I 'm getting older and I do n't like that |
| 16 | Maybe remind her on Wednesday or find out from her if she you know , asked her . |
| 17 | I mean a , I 'm a little bit different cos I would , I 'd you know me , I do n't like putting money in anything cos I I do n't like to lose money through a a lost cause sort of thing . |
| 18 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 19 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 20 | As i said , if you have problems and they do n't you do n't think they 're going to do an awful lot , get back to me cos I I 'm sure that 's going to need some sort of intervention . |
| 21 | So how did they react to you when you your mum and dad when you actually when you moved in here . |
| 22 | ‘ Lord , the son of Siban , whose name has been offered to you as one you may see fit to pardon , as is the custom on this day . ’ |
| 23 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 24 | Er , sorry President , worthy President and all the rest of it , what I 'm saying is that we 're totally opposed to it because what you 're going to have here is , you 're gon na have a situation where branches , branches , you gon na have them fighting between branches and the C E C |
| 25 | That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll be more likely to get killed with them falling on us than anything what the Jerrys throw down , ’ Hetty said . |
| 27 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 28 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 29 | Now I can advise you in the office under the green form system if you are eligible for it because you you 've got no income coming in and your savings are below one thousand six hundred quid . |
| 30 | Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility . |