Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you a Bible story meself In me own way . |
| 2 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 3 | Within fifteen minutes everyone in the cast — apart from me — was talking about this . |
| 4 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 5 | Attempts are made to route them into low-level manual work regardless of ability or level of motivation for further education , and discrimination in entry to training schemes acts as a further block to employment and careers ( Wrench , 1987 , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | Busy executives should not be bothered by trifling matters , so the receptionist must learn how to classify calls and route them to the person best suited to deal with them . |
| 7 | Nearly everyone is still troubled by the memory of what happened , and all hope nothing like it happens again . |
| 8 | It is thought that those who occupied the Malvern hill forts may have herded their cattle down the Worcestershire drove-ways to pasture them on Longdon Marsh in the summers before the Roman conquest . |
| 9 | If the structure pays greater attention to what the children achieve , rather than values them for what they are , its philosophy will be seriously flawed . |
| 10 | Due to the housing and building recession everyone in the stock market knew it would be reporting dreadful figures this week . |
| 11 | Richard Carlile told Francis Place of his belief that women ‘ had an almost constant desire for copulation ; the customs of society alone , I think , debar them from it ’ . |
| 12 | The first census pairs them off man for man , leaving a surplus of 273 who are redeemed by money . |
| 13 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 14 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 15 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 16 | In those circumstances , a magistrate can sentence someone to a maximum of three months in prison . |
| 17 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 18 | n my in my mind . |
| 19 | Erm we mentioned already today about A P A P I on the desktop called erm Open Client . |
| 20 | So we 're very committed to O D B C. It is one standard which we 're following , it is an alternative A P I for the desktop which is obviously strong because of the Microsoft relationship , erm but we will also foth follow other standards in terms of A P Is for the desktop as well . |
| 21 | Knowledge , of course , is power and if you want to diss ; that 's insult someone without their knowing it , this book 's full of suggestions . |
| 22 | They tell readers nothing about the arguments in favour of the extension of VAT . |
| 23 | You 've got items to be discussed , and then you 've got an ability on the right-hand side them to resequence them . |
| 24 | One reads that such scenes give the green soldier nothing but a mad lust to kill in his turn . |
| 25 | Is n't this the best thing to do with a lock them in their office ? |
| 26 | These hospitals were funded by Iran to treat battle casualties — Hezbollah , Amal militiamen and Syrian troops , depending on who happened to be fighting whom at the time — and they were ideal places for holding hostages . |
| 27 | Thanks everyone for your co-operation . |
| 28 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah that was the furniture repository nothing about the crystal palace . |
| 30 | Though most developed countries deplore such practices , most either practice them from time to time — as Britain did in its arms dealing with Saudi Arabia — or else turn a blind eye when it suits them . |