Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over 13 years these good people have advised me or acted in my name and your service . |
| 2 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 3 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 4 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 5 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 6 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 7 | 40 major London road schemes abandoned ; ‘ Important to commit ourselves as opposed to roads ’ |
| 8 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 9 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 10 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 11 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 12 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 13 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 14 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 15 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 16 | He has a tremendous respect for Fowler , adding : ‘ If he applied himself and packed in his job as a taxman he could be the best in the world . |
| 17 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 18 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 19 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 20 | He shook himself and focused with difficulty on the small crooked figure standing in front of him . |
| 21 | Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966 , tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma , who were staying with Gabrielle 's father on his farm in Kent . |
| 22 | The war inside himself was a small conflagration compared with the bombardments he saw for himself and read about daily . |
| 23 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 24 | Despite some unnecessary barracking from supporters , Mr Singh certainly enjoyed himself and got behind the team . |
| 25 | A similar case exists where A interferes with the subject-matter of the contract in a way which if done by B would amount to a breach of the contract . |
| 26 | These rules include provision for the calculation of a quota of votes which if gained by a candidate will ensure election and this has the effect of producing in each constituency a result in seats which is as nearly proportional as possible to the opinions of the voters . |
| 27 | Accounting policies which if altered for consistency with the purchaser 's policies would have a material effect on the earnings or net assets of the target . |
| 28 | a programme of reconstruction which if applied in practice would create an educational edifice not unworthy of the British people … |
| 29 | As when he talks about colour , he distinguishes between the painter 's requirements and those of the sightseer ; so a dry heat may produce an aerial density in the atmosphere very favourable to view the scenery , which if lit by ‘ a cloudless sky will be too general to please the ( painter 's ) eye of taste . ’ |
| 30 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |