Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you a Bible story meself In me own way . |
| 2 | Nearly everyone is still troubled by the memory of what happened , and all hope nothing like it happens again . |
| 3 | If the structure pays greater attention to what the children achieve , rather than values them for what they are , its philosophy will be seriously flawed . |
| 4 | Richard Carlile told Francis Place of his belief that women ‘ had an almost constant desire for copulation ; the customs of society alone , I think , debar them from it ’ . |
| 5 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 6 | n my in my mind . |
| 7 | Knowledge , of course , is power and if you want to diss ; that 's insult someone without their knowing it , this book 's full of suggestions . |
| 8 | Is n't this the best thing to do with a lock them in their office ? |
| 9 | Thanks everyone for your co-operation . |
| 10 | It also takes part in the ecumenical National Retreat Association which through its National Retreat Centre offers resources , information and an annual magazine called Vision which gives information about retreats and retreat houses . |
| 11 | 306 , the Court of Appeal had held that a trade association which by its constitution had power to put the name of a person infringing its rules on a stop list , could instead lawfully ask the person concerned to make a money payment by way of compromise . |
| 12 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 13 | Although the decent instinct of many was to support the weaker side in a wholly legitimate quest for independence , their public utterances , alas , were to support the side which in their view was the more important to British interests . |
| 14 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 15 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 16 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 17 | Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle . |
| 18 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 19 | They find their thinking and decision-making dominated by market and resource considerations which in their scale and complexity are a long way indeed from the traditional concept of primary headship ( Audit Commission 1991 ) . |
| 20 | Sitting at peace with his ailing woman , tenderly responsive , he imagined his mouth curved in a mysterious smile ‘ like that of Rembrandt himself in his self-portrait in which Saskia is sitting on his knee and he has a glass of wine in his hand . ’ |
| 21 | A Warsaw based European holiday coach company were supposed to pay seven thousand four hundred and fifty pounds as a toll which in itself was an illegal act of discrimination . |
| 22 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 23 | This afternoon , after being spotted by a patrol vehicle , the car collided with a motorcyclist , who in turn hit a car which in which some of the passengers were children . |
| 24 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 25 | What such critics for their part fail to realize is just how difficult scientific research actually is , how complex the testing of any even seemingly trivial hypothesis or hunch may be , and how many paradoxes and seeming mysteries we confront every day in our research which to us are at least as challenging as , but theoretically more relevant than , fretting about probably untestable phenomena like ESP . |
| 26 | The hyperacute rejection reaction is known to be mediated by complement which in itself is regulated by a family of membrane glycoproteins including decay-accelerating factor ( DAF ) and membrane cofactor protein . |
| 27 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 28 | The government also provided a multitude of tax concessions which at their 1955 peak probably reduced average corporation-tax liability by one-fifth , falling to around 12 per cent in the early sixties . |
| 29 | The reader will recall that latency in this genetically determined , physiological sense is a consequence of neoteny , itself the cause of the postponement of sexual maturity until adolescence which is a contributory , but not a necessary or determining , cause of the resolution of the Oedipus complex which in our culture should normally usher in the latency period . ) |
| 30 | Er inside , er is a wheel which with which the erm signal box , or signalman , er could er open and shut the gates as necessary . |