Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit .
2 It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war .
3 And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ?
4 Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table .
5 This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you .
6 Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken .
7 But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute .
8 He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber .
9 The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings .
10 Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven !
11 The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com
12 How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement !
13 And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them .
14 Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world .
15 All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session .
16 I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him .
17 ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor .
18 It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation .
19 This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair .
20 ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’
21 It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door .
22 Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written .
23 Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . "
24 It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands .
25 In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
26 Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
27 More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage .
28 But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park .
29 Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar .
30 For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef .
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