Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , you kind of whetted my interest with the part about me killing somebody on a cash basis . ’ |
| 2 | She was waiting , hopelessly , for me to present her with a completed list and I was n't going to . |
| 3 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 4 | Now how about I take you to a doctor I know in Swiss Cottage . |
| 5 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 6 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 7 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |
| 8 | And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever . ’ |
| 9 | The boundaries may have been short , with netting to protect the club 's offices , but it was worthwhile practice for Smith , and a glimpse of warmer times ahead for a remarkable crowd ; there were about 100 well wrapped-up diehards , one of whom plonked himself in a red deckchair on the outfield , dangerously at midwicket . |
| 10 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 11 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 12 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Enthusiastic support for the project among the local populace , many of whom see it as a source of potential employment , helped tip the balance over a rival site outside Paris , the researchers said . |
| 14 | Erm so basically he 's still there and they 've got rid of me making it as an excuse but Charles as partner is his brother , Nicholas . |
| 15 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 16 | We almost wished we could ask one of them to join us for a meal . |
| 17 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
| 18 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 19 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 20 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 21 | I 'm Parish Priest and yet the pair of them treat me like a child . ’ |
| 22 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 23 | We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we spoke to at least half a dozen members of his firm and none of them knows anything about a shipment of cocaine , ’ Hitch announced . |
| 25 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 26 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 27 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 28 | Underneath this heading list any of the items below which bring you in an income : |
| 29 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 30 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |