Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 2 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 3 | It would be technically possible , for instance , to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world , akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population . |
| 4 | The bit about everyone in the in a dinner queue . |
| 5 | So fine was her memory and so good were her stories about everyone from Mrs Simpson ( ‘ so angular , all elbows and knees ’ ) to Stanley Baldwin ( ‘ a terrible old humbug about the countryside ’ ) that it was a great pity she refused to write her memoirs . |
| 6 | Experts from 25 different agencies will be on hand with health care information about everyone from babies to pensioners at St Peter 's Church , Rock Ferry . |
| 7 | She sensed a similar , blissful confidence about everyone around her : the barman , cheerfully serving his customers with a lightning speed , the boatmen and labourers , and the shop girls , who seemed completely sure of themselves and unashamedly exuberant . |
| 8 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 9 | Data from the weather craft are made available for nothing to other governments under international agreements . |
| 10 | But in which other profession are the products of one 's labour given away for nothing to people who then sell them ? |
| 11 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 12 | Er it 's , I can not get to sleep for nothing for it . |
| 13 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 14 | And twenty five pounds worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers for nothing for that . |
| 15 | His gift of tears in prayer would have counted for nothing without this . |
| 16 | He wondered if he should tell her how he hankered for nothing outside their life , of how his cup was full enough . |
| 17 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 18 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 19 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 20 | But there was time now for nothing but actions . |
| 21 | Care needs to be taken to space out fund raising events or it will appear that the school cares for nothing but money . |
| 22 | Trelawney 's promotion to the Bishopric of Winchester in 1707 apparently caused ‘ … great disgust to many ( he ) being considerable for nothing but his birth and his interest in Cornwall ’ . |
| 23 | Born in Plymouth , Devon , to a poor stonemason , also called John and his wife Elizabeth , John Kitto was a sickly lad who cared for nothing but books . |
| 24 | And as long as the Kremlin remains paralysed , British business there will look for nothing but confirmation that things at home are not , perhaps , so bad after all . . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 26 | Fortunately , archaeology breeds rebels who care for nothing but ferreting out the truth . |
| 27 | Most doubters either think they have grace or care for nothing but the day itself . |
| 28 | She would bewitch him , until he had eyes for nothing but her . |
| 29 | I wished for nothing but the absence of pain , and Lili seemed beyond harm : as secure and unassailable as the morning-star . |
| 30 | He 's good for nothing but trouble now . ’ |