Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We say more about the resolutions in the explanatory notes but if you have any queries about them please telephone our Shareholder Enquiry Office where the staff will be able to help you .
2 ‘ He was always the one cast member who always stood up for me if there were any bleating from Equity members about them not getting their money from repeats , compilations and so on . ’
3 No Peter wants about them finally closing his business down .
4 Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation .
5 He saw Balfour and Lloyd George in such different lights that , the issue of the Admiralty apart , the idea of an alliance between them hardly entered his head .
6 I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life .
7 One of them simply lifted her skirt , lay on the floor , and had a handjob .
8 Modern scholars have found proof that from here they continued to withdraw north-eastwards , groups of them eventually making their way to the vicinity of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , the region which now constitutes the border between Syria and Iraq .
9 Many of them usually earn their living by carrying out valuations on behalf of brewery companies .
10 On the other hand , none of them ever doubted his ability to give as good as he got when the street-fighting began .
11 However none of them actually shared my interest in politics … .
12 ‘ … in Iraq I was manipulated heavily … to the point of them actually grabbing my hand , moving the way I was pointing the camera …
13 I 've never been so controlled , to the point of them actually grabbing my hand , moving the way I was pointing the camera .
14 Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer .
15 There 's this bloke his well a chum of his actually got his statement and said this ca n't be blinking right !
16 Again Leith wanted to tell him he could forget all idea of her ultimately becoming his cousin by marriage , but again , she found she could not .
17 Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling .
18 In the course of ordinary domestic , family and work-place life , each of us voluntarily gives our name and address to a wide range of agencies , authorities and individuals , usually in expectation of a service ; in addition , of course , we are each of us under statutory obligations to give personal details to agencies of central and local government , whether as employed persons , voting citizens , rate-or-tax-payers or licensees ( of TV , dog , car , etc ) .
19 One of us automatically consults his watch : 4.40 to the second .
20 None of us ever saw your sister again after that . ’
21 ‘ After Hall was ordered off you really saw our resilience and will to succeed . ’
22 The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type .
23 It 's like you not painting your house for years and waiting for the glass to fall out of the windows before you start … it 's not the way to do things
24 Those who fight against it there deserve our support and appreciation .
25 To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police .
26 She finally got involved for the oldest reason of all : ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into it just to get his attention , and to be around him more . ’
27 While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it .
28 It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way .
29 Imagining her to be delicate , he was anxious for her not to strain her voice .
30 or attached to you not knowing their luck .
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