Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I see no evidence in the er proposals of the other two groups of those qualities , there I do not see coherent form of covering for the contingencies that we could face and I see a real unwillingness to indicate how they would tackle priorities . |
| 2 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 3 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 4 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 5 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
| 6 | Will your household insurance pay for the damage if you spill a can of paint over your wall-to-wall carpet , put your foot through the bedroom ceiling , or demolish a load-bearing wall and bring half your home tumbling about your ears ? |
| 7 | Personal survival entailed preparing for the possibility that it could n't be stopped . |
| 8 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 9 | They 're responsible for the , for the present that they keep , they keep sending us this and that minister , and that . |
| 10 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 11 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 12 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 13 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 14 | . So the erm Woman 's Own rubber rhyme erm begins Aahs for the runs and I modestly blush , aahs for the runs in your girdle . |
| 15 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 16 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
| 17 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 18 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 19 | So we are looking for a new name that we shall use for the discs when they are eventually released . |
| 20 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
| 21 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 22 | see , for the lights so you were n't allowed to put the lights on you see for the bombers . |
| 23 | I have used four stitches on each bed for the sample but you can vary this number to suit your button . |
| 24 | Where will Mary look for the coin when she comes back in ? |
| 25 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 26 | The Martian encampment they find may be deserted but the lichen-like vegetation , triggered into accelerated growth by a light drizzle of rain , proves more than just a minor hazard for the astronauts as they race against time to repair the ship . |
| 27 | What news will Chancellor Norman Lamont have for the motorist when he rises in the House of Commons next Tuesday to deliver his budget speech ? |
| 28 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 29 | Fig 103 By making the first of two tacks into tide it is easier to judge when to tack for the mark since you are much closer to it than if you take the other course . |
| 30 | How many disabled people , after being assessed for services under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1979 , are now on waiting lists for the help that they need ? |