Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her on behalf of everyone for finding time in her busy life to attend our training days and for the interest she always shows in all we do . |
| 2 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 3 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 4 | As one constable stated , the ‘ Action Men ’ who are fitness conscious and orientated towards crime-fighting only adopt this mode ‘ to get them off doing work ’ . |
| 5 | Mr today congratulated me for slapping Anthony . |
| 6 | I was disappointed at this and was afraid she was still vexed at me for bringing Frankie . |
| 7 | One of the pourers reproved me for eating cheese before trying the wine . |
| 8 | Right at this moment I 've awakened needs you thought you 'd buried , but in the cold light of morning you 'll blame me for taking advantage . ’ |
| 9 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 10 | ‘ Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for putting medicine in a cake ! ’ |
| 11 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 12 | N no nothing about taking lands away from landlords , confiscation |
| 13 | They are taught nothing about helping people to die . |
| 14 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 15 | A group of physically handicapped people are protesting over plans to charge them for using day centres . |
| 16 | This training was to elucidate the objectives of the study , to familiarise interviewers with the questionnaire , and to prepare them for conducting interviews on intimate and possibly sensitive questions . |
| 17 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 18 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 19 | Flick knives have caused problems when trying to decide whether they are offensive weapons by themselves ( with out having to prove the intent of the possessor to use them for causing injury ) . |
| 20 | I know that the problem is likely to recur once US forces pull out of the region but no one should lambast them for taking action now . |
| 21 | ‘ We use them for getting track information and arrival times , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Until this week , they had all their lessons together , but following a governor 's meeting , the school has agreed to segregate them for swimming lessons in the school 's pool . |
| 23 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 24 | Folks use them for making nature films ; bluetits in their nestboxes , badgers in their sets , intruders at the door . |
| 25 | These include mini-trunking , similar to that used for electric cables , and additional skirting boards and architraves ( in plastic or hardwood ) which have a space behind them for running pipes . |
| 26 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |
| 27 | Some of the threads will have small drops of sticky fluid on them for trapping insects while some threads will have no stickiness . |
| 28 | With their novel shape and colourful appearance , Dolphin scissors have proved very popular with children who can use them for cutting paper , card or fabric . |
| 29 | There is nothing quite like them for resuscitating spirits depressed by wintry gloom . |
| 30 | We pay them for attending fires . |