Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 2 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 3 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 5 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 6 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 7 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 8 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 9 | He feared that another show , arranged for him through the Lefevre Gallery , at Durlacher Bros , 11 East 57th Street , New York , would also have to be delayed as by the end of the summer he had not done enough work . |
| 10 | Under the special cover we have arranged for you with the Norwich Union , all Insured Persons of any age are covered , and the Policy will cover you should you have to cancel your holiday for certain reasons . |
| 11 | Buildings insurance is essential and therefore usually arranged for you by the Society . |
| 12 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 13 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 14 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 15 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 16 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 17 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 18 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 19 | The ego is the executive agency , the id could be regarded as something like the Congress , as o which er seen as a , as a large mass of conflicting demands . |
| 20 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 21 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
| 22 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 23 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 24 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 25 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 26 | She thinks he 's forgotten about it in the rush of leaving for America . |
| 27 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 28 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 29 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 30 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |