Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 2 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 3 | She sensed a similar , blissful confidence about everyone around her : the barman , cheerfully serving his customers with a lightning speed , the boatmen and labourers , and the shop girls , who seemed completely sure of themselves and unashamedly exuberant . |
| 4 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 5 | Er it 's , I can not get to sleep for nothing for it . |
| 6 | He wondered if he should tell her how he hankered for nothing outside their life , of how his cup was full enough . |
| 7 | She would bewitch him , until he had eyes for nothing but her . |
| 8 | Trelawney 's promotion to the Bishopric of Winchester in 1707 apparently caused ‘ … great disgust to many ( he ) being considerable for nothing but his birth and his interest in Cornwall ’ . |
| 9 | The Revd Frederick Oakeley [ q.v. ] , later a convert to Rome , a graduate at Christ Church while Smith was dean , thought him ‘ remarkable for nothing but his good nature ’ and ‘ the most irregular and unpunctual attendant ’ at college services ; however , ‘ the moral and religious state of Christ Church … was in a state of progressive improvement ’ under Smith . |
| 10 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 11 | And look at her … turning soft with admiration for a man who cared for nothing but his ambition . |
| 12 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 13 | He cares for nothing except his own self-gratification . |
| 14 | The women ended up having to negotiate everything through their husbands , and when they were expected to work for nothing on their husbands ' plots they refused and demanded full payment . |
| 15 | Seeing her there , Stephen had to remind himself — for nothing in her bearing hinted at it and no vestige of hand-some looks remained — that she had once been the mistress of Alfred Osborn Tace . |
| 16 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 17 | She always paints well , but her colour is sickly in many instances here , and her choice of subjects not attractive ; to say the least , there was something decidedly unpleasant about them to me , they seemed clinical . |
| 18 | I do n't think I ever talked about them to anyone . ’ |
| 19 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 20 | You are therefore obliged to base your judgements and conclusions about them on what you hear them say and how they say it . |
| 21 | And props ; what do you do about them at your audition ? |
| 22 | Talk about them with your partner and write down your memories . |
| 23 | ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth . |
| 24 | In the book Tracy does n't tell us anything about them except their names merely that she could n't work with them . |
| 25 | I half expected five-year-olds to be making funny remarks about them behind my back . |
| 26 | I paint the words and leave others to think about them in their own hearts . ’ |
| 27 | No material is given about their activities as Mufti , and no anecdotes are related about them in their capacity as Mufti , though something is related about each in his capacity as kadi . |
| 28 | The ruins of so many Indian palaces — Mandu , for example , or the great Hindu capital of Hampi — still retain an aura of great dignity about them in their wreckage , but in the Red Fort that aura is notable by its absence . |
| 29 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 30 | However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v . |