Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel begged the company 's indulgence as chairman elect to entertain them with a short piece in Sir Thomas 's absence . |
| 2 | PIBS , which are a form of security specially created for building societies to help them raise funds , are irredeemable and subordinated to all other creditors and shareholders of the building society . |
| 3 | The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible , but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not an easy thing to do , making assumptions to estimate costs and then keeping people informed of any changes as they arise , but it 's not easy for others such as building contractors to do it either and they do . ’ |
| 5 | Now we 've got a buyer for that one at home well two for pound help to buy you a bed . |
| 6 | Mr Power ca n't have done because now and then when rebellion stirred during overlong film repairs he rushed down the aisle cracking a whip . |
| 7 | Here , on demanding mountain roads , the yawning gaps between gear ratios made it difficult to keep the engine spinning above the ideal 4000rpm . |
| 8 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 9 | Hot Pressed paper pass through a set of heated rollers after sheet formation to give them a smooth , plate finish . |
| 10 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 11 | The pantograph is probably the simplest type of digitiser there is ; and for home computer use it is completely adequate . |
| 12 | Firstly , to attract bright and enthusiastic people into our operation who we could then train up from scratch , and secondly , to provide a channel for individuals who already have some bakery or catering experience , and for whom our kind of operation could offer the opportunities for management development denied them elsewhere . |
| 13 | During lunch Joe kept us entertained with anecdotes about his friends and contributors — old Wyndham Lewis , half blind , who was one of his art critics , and who , when taken to eat at L'Escargot , just pushed his gourmet food around on his plate . |
| 14 | However , Pearson 's lack of interest in the methods of play construction led him towards even more unfocused ways of organizing his films , aiming for a sort of primitive naturalism — ‘ nothing more than the capture of things seen , life in the living , and by selection and arrangement , the flow of the human tale . ’ |
| 15 | How much space and what kind of play equipment does she have ? |
| 16 | After lunch Joanna asked what kind of progress Sophie thought they were making with small animals . |
| 17 | Here in the vaulted chalk cellars of Champagne Veuve Cliquot we were to discover that Champagne reaches the parts that other breakfasts beverages do n't reach . |
| 18 | Cold icy winds swept under the gaps of cottage doors rattling them fiercely . |
| 19 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 20 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 21 | Scotmid was among the first in the field to introduce bar-code readers to their store checkouts , and the use of computer stocktaking brings them soundly into the 1990s . |
| 22 | Computer instructions generally operate on individual scalar variables , although we have seen how the use of index registers allows us to interpret these scalars as elements of vectors or stacks . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course Jim loves you , ’ I 'd tell myself . |
| 24 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 25 | Of course tiredness affects it as do my periods and the time of the day even . |
| 26 | Yeah , he knew we were there , he was responding and erm , he said er , he 's responding well to the operation and then on the Tuesday he went bright yellow and of course mum noticed it |
| 27 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 28 | But of course Stephen knows him much better , he was at college with him , and they 've always kept in touch , in a fairly loose sort of way . |
| 29 | Four-fifths of course participants believe they conform to the ideal : they 're soon disabused by their peers |
| 30 | Of course Claudia believed it . ’ |