Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 2 | Comparing him to Demosthenes , in whom oratory compensated for a speech impediment , Storr juxtaposes two key scenes : young Winston being pelted with cricket balls and hiding behind a tree , and a slightly older Winston terrifying his friends ( and all but killing himself ) by jumping 30 ft off a bridge . |
| 3 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 4 | Western Wolf , on whom Cauthen won over the course last month , should follow up , but faces several threatening rivals , notably Single . |
| 5 | She herself was keen and alert and quick off the mark , and she became cross when Sarah 's slow and dreamy ways lost thee Imps points in team games . |
| 6 | But to continue with Clem 's letter — she told me Melanie went to Wales after you to try more persuasion . ’ |
| 7 | These ‘ five techniques ’ ( requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated , having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours , depriving them of sleep , subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them ) were subsequently condemned as ‘ torture ’ by the European Rights Commission ( Hewitt , 1982:157–8 ) . |
| 8 | Then me mum went to America and took Angela with her , left no address or nothing , and so it 's just me — no father , no nothing . |
| 9 | Me Mum works at Rayner 's — they make anoraks and that . |
| 10 | Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully . |
| 11 | It urges them t to press for full prosecution disclosure and advises them of the frequent need to obtain their own evaluation of prosecution scientific evidence . |
| 12 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 13 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 14 | He was fortunate in having few relatives who could make any serious encroachment on his endowments : he had no brothers ; his uncle Jasper died in 1495 ; and his elder son Arthur died in 1502 , leaving him with only one surviving son for whom provision had to be made . |
| 15 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 16 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 17 | The film director Michael Law whom Minton met in Soho at this time has provided a vivid metaphor for his condition : ‘ Johnny was really like a clock with the machinery hanging out . |
| 18 | An insight into his state is provided by Michael Wishart , now married to the painter Anne Dunn and living in a studio in Paris , and whom Minton visited in the autumn of 1953 . |
| 19 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 20 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |
| 21 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 22 | User to whom mail has to be sent ( Mandatory Input Field ) |
| 23 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 24 | This episode bears considerable similarity to the fate of Lord Grey de Wilton , Lord Deputy of Ireland to whom Spenser acted as secretary . |
| 25 | ‘ Why has you got all them words written under them ? ’ asked George . |
| 26 | Among the modern pictures are ‘ Guitare et journal ’ by Picasso of 1914 ( est. $3–4 million ) , formerly in the collection of the dancer Massine , with whom Picasso collaborated on a number of theatrical productions , and purchased by Rodgers from E.V . |
| 27 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 28 | They take them to museums ; they give them cars to drive around town ; they introduce them to everyone worth knowing in Texas . |
| 29 | The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew . |
| 30 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |