Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As religious advisor to the radio station he gets birthday requests played for them during Sunday morning broadcasts . |
| 2 | During the Second World War , tram crews had to carry gas masks and don them during air raids , as this picture shows . |
| 3 | For example , line management required a list of their staff , showing basic salary , age and other basic information in date of start order in order to aid them during appraisal sessions . |
| 4 | Siobhan identifies me to everyone as Claudia Coe , Crilly 's girlfriend from America . |
| 5 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 6 | Another Halket satire : ‘ A dialogue between the Devil and George II ’ , an imaginary , scurrilous discussion which did nothing for King George 's reputation , so incensed his son , Butcher Cumberland , that he offered £100 reward to anyone who would bring him Halket 's body . |
| 7 | It was an unhappy and tense discussion and can have done absolutely nothing for Geoffrey Howe 's morale as he prepared for the afternoon . |
| 8 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 9 | Of course , there was nothing for Aunt Tossie to understand , but her concerned enquiries , sometimes with three meanings embedded in their concern , Nicandra found difficult to negotiate . |
| 10 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 11 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have thought it would be the West End or nothing for Dane Jacobsen — superstar . ’ |
| 13 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 14 | Big Lou hired John Surtees and offered him the whole of my £27,000 budget for drivers , leaving nothing for Jackie Oliver . |
| 15 | " What , nothing for Mr. Preston ? " asked Sara . |
| 16 | Exceptions would be certain Loranthaceous and Viscaceous seeds , which birds remove from their bills by brushing them through bark crevices , or the passage of seeds through an animal to germinate in its dung . |
| 17 | To get rid of grit , strain them through kitchen paper in a sieve then pick mushrooms out individually . |
| 18 | The separated ions are converted back to atoms by passing them through lithium vapour , from which the ions easily pick up their missing electrons . |
| 19 | Although drummer Richie Hayward powered them through Blow Wind , Blow Wind , and the evergreen Key to the Highway , I began to think that Keith Richards ' X-Pensive Winos were a better band . |
| 20 | Stealing them for resale , stealing from them , making phoney insurance claims after getting them stolen for you , even putting them through council crushers — £626 million . |
| 21 | Both the staff pension fund and TOPS are in the hands of trustees who run them through management committees . |
| 22 | A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy . |
| 23 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 24 | ‘ If we can keep them off council land it will make it nearly impossible for them . |
| 25 | Those very few who do receive enough child support to ‘ float ’ them off income support may nevertheless lose financially because of the consequent loss of passported benefits such as free school meals . |
| 26 | Because they told me that the assessment will be made by the Child Support Agency who would then pass it over to the Income Support Agency who would then take them off Income Support . |
| 27 | Alan Knott was one of them off Wayne Daniel 's bowling . |
| 28 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 29 | I said , ‘ yesterday you collected some thirst quenchers from me for Bill Baudelaire 's daughter . ’ |
| 30 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |