Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 2 | The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts , as though punishing them for bad behaviour . |
| 3 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 4 | He knows nothing about the Bill of Rights or the decision in Att. -Gen . |
| 5 | At this stage , therefore , we shall say nothing about the range of theories which can be brought to bear on international relations , if one believes in working from the inside in pursuit of understanding . |
| 6 | That information could clear Mr Abell 's name — assuming , as he says , he knows nothing about the control of shares held through Sterling Trust . |
| 7 | Rokovssky , of course , knowing nothing about the use of latchcords in Walworth , had n't even looked for one . |
| 8 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
| 9 | In another part of the city , near the Gethsemane church in the run-down Prenzlauer Berg district , police attacked a candlelit procession by about 1,000 young people , beating them about the head with truncheons , as the crowd chanted ‘ no violence ’ . |
| 10 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 11 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 12 | The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates . |
| 13 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 14 | An experienced producer at a major London agency was recently asked to list them for the benefit of newcomers . |
| 15 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 16 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 17 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |
| 18 | I firmly believe that if we study animals as animals including their struggles with their internal and external environments , we can liberate them and ourselves from the obfuscation of terms such as pain and turn instead to definable values . |
| 19 | How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’ |
| 20 | It became increasingly difficult to pay insurance and assistance benefits and at the same time keep them below the level of wages . |
| 21 | The only disadvantage I find with them is that there are so many bits to take apart and wash and , as with most plastic bowls it is difficult to rid them of the smell of onions . |
| 22 | erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually . |
| 23 | The detection of word boundaries in written text is relatively simple ( due to the custom of leaving spaces between them despite the absence of pauses in speech ) however the segmentation of a word into its constituent characters is difficult . |
| 24 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 25 | However , Hope , by that time , clearly regarded himself as the embodiment of blacks ' ambitions . |
| 26 | For the next couple of years at least the shares will be supported only by assets , which despite the fall in values are still worth 25 p.c. more than the share price . |
| 27 | His deafness debarred him from lectures , and he was unable to avail himself of the help of tutors , but he persevered and he graduated in 1911 , overnight becoming front-page news as the only deaf man ( then ) to achieve the academic distinction of Master of Arts of Cambridge University . |
| 28 | Certainly he heard the knob turn , which considering the battering of cranes and donkey-engines as the ship was emptied of her cargo was phenomenon enough . |
| 29 | . He followed a difficult zigzag path from Porlock Weir to Culbone , climbing through woodland which abounded in ‘ wild deer , foxes , badgers , and martin cats ’ ; whortleberries grew in plenty beneath the canopy of trees , and as the ascent progressed , the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below and glimpses of the Channel and the Welsh mountains were sufficient to fill one eighteenth century traveller with mingled ‘ pleasure and astonishment ’ . |
| 30 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |