Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 2 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 3 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |
| 4 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 5 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 6 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 7 | It was felt that the main objective of the Tory government has been to discipline the unemployed and to lay the blame for their unemployment on them rather than on government economic policy . |
| 8 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 9 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 10 | Some planners , for example , saw that their economic planning might be more effective if they used the price mechanism to work with them rather than against them , and Philip Chantler , the economic adviser brought into the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1947 , consistently advocated a move to higher prices . |
| 11 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 12 | The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions . |
| 13 | Auguste regarded them grimly and with foreboding . |
| 14 | He had been dealing with them on and off all his life . |
| 15 | Its luring me on as of old ; |
| 16 | It really did turn me on and after the first time I done it it it turned me on so much I come . |
| 17 | ‘ I hate it when people talk about me rather than to me . |
| 18 | She was still talking about me rather than to me , so in a way I was glad I had n't used any of my real names . |
| 19 | The first area is one that was raised by me rather than by counsel . |
| 20 | but I had n't yet realized that the answers had to come from me rather than from the therapist . |
| 21 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 22 | but like somebody else that were in , erm , the , the bloody pressure were up so they kept them in cos of that |
| 23 | Ridding yourself of clutter does not just mean organising things into tidy piles , it means either being properly rid of them or putting them in or on something — like shelves . |
| 24 | Cut out each letter of the phrase and hide them in or around the house and in other places , as you would for a scavenger hunt . |
| 25 | We put them in or in the holiday tin with all the change . |
| 26 | Time a week or so after christmas has come you 're you 're glad to get them down and out the way . |
| 27 | On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious . |
| 28 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 29 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 30 | Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict . |