Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about everyone having their own Everest to climb . |
| 3 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 4 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 5 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 6 | Not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally . |
| 7 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 8 | One thing about them surprised him . |
| 9 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 10 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 11 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 12 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 13 | The result was that in spite of some misgivings about the script and the incessantly repetitive dialogue about them doing their own thing , reviewers spoke glowingly of ‘ an actor named Jack Nicholson … is magnificent ’ and ‘ he gave a brilliantly witty performance ’ . |
| 14 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 15 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 16 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 17 | Now , coming back to the point you were making about them paying your suppliers and such like , erm , all the standard is looking for is that you use proof suppliers , that you get what you want , when you want it . |
| 18 | I look at their mouths and their hands , put on a prim expression and think about them having me in bed . |
| 19 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 20 | But you never hear them er about them do you ? |
| 21 | But if you 're really pissed , you do n't care about them do you , eh ? |
| 22 | Took my letter off me said she 'll come back for it at dinner time because she wanted my bag , I mean like well I , I had n't said that . |
| 23 | rip off me chewing them . |
| 24 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 25 | Oh , oh , well he 's still reversing , he 's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but , he still sits in the same position oh dear |
| 26 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 27 | For everyone to think he was a — seducer ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why is it so difficult for everyone to believe me ? ’ she demanded through clenched teeth . |
| 29 | In a small school it is possible for everyone to start their different distances together . |
| 30 | The way I think of the band is kind of like puzzle pieces ; to me the secret of an effective arrangement is not for everyone to push towards the same kind of sound , but for everyone to play something that 's contrasting but interlocking , so that when you listen to the song , all the pieces fall into place around each other . |