Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way , the way they talk about March winds it was February rain they |
| 2 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 3 | She made it easier for Sarah to see him . |
| 4 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 5 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 6 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 7 | to meet with Jim so that we can a a the objective of which will be for Jim to tell us what the content of his course is , so we can assess where whether there are gaps in our training . |
| 8 | Reading the news for ITN means I sometimes work peculiar hours but I often have a weekday morning off , and that 's when I play golf . |
| 9 | Her choice made , she went back for vegetables to accompany it , recklessly adding a demi-kilo of the huge firm-fleshed tomatoes , as well as nectarines , oranges and a punnet of strawberries to her collection . |
| 10 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 11 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 12 | You do n't have to be regular cyclist to enjoy a cycling holiday in Holland as the safe , segregated cycle lanes have special traffic lights and signposts for cyclists making it a relaxing and enjoyable pastime for people of all ages ; families , couples , or groups of friends . |
| 13 | It would be hard now for Ferguson to leave him out . |
| 14 | Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ? |
| 15 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 16 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 17 | But I ca n't remember what it was because obviously , at that age , you do n't bother about money do you like , you know . |
| 18 | You do n't have to worry too much about money do you really so long as you can manage with it . |
| 19 | Only watching the sea for hours calmed her . |
| 20 | West Indians began to troop off , only for Gower to wave them back since Terry , arm in sling beneath sweater , was returning . |
| 21 | At the end Polyxena looks back as Akamas leads her away a prisoner . |
| 22 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 23 | At equilibrium , these are equal , and we merely have to solve the equation for p to discover it . |
| 24 | But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months . |
| 25 | It 's funny about Ellis having ya , I think , I think |
| 26 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 27 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
| 28 | ‘ Through Rugby Travel I get lots of invitations to schools and clubs — I did nine sessions in two days in Northern Ireland recently — and it 's a good opportunity to try out different moves . |
| 29 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 30 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |