Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path took me under trees in full leaf and out across open fields where below me to the left the river Bain , the shortest river in England , flowed on its two-and-a-half-mile journey from Semer Water to the river Ure . |
| 2 | Then there are the eyeshadow compacts with squares of immaculate , untouched shades — except for one per tray , which has been brushed bare . |
| 3 | Most records are for Chichester , Pagham or Rye Harbours , and all are for the coast , except for one at Amberley Wildbrooks from 31 December 1950 to 15 April 1951 . |
| 4 | It is doubly unfortunate that very few of the buckles and belt plates , so often claimed as characteristic of late Roman military equipment , have been found in these sites except for one at Cave 's Inn . |
| 5 | We know nothing about its rulers , except for one about the time of the conquest , whose name began with the letter ‘ A ’ . |
| 6 | All MIPS buildings , except for one in Korea where SGI does n't have an office , are scheduled to be closed down by August . |
| 7 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 8 | Except for him of course , but Cos I was getting a bit upset that my voice was going a bit Brummie . |
| 9 | The touch judges ' flags were on the pitch more often than off it in a game I saw recently here ( in Eastern Province , South Africa ) . |
| 10 | But better for him to be in a lavatory somewhere than for him to be sick on the programme ! |
| 11 | Nothing would be more disastrous for the future of British Airways than for it to be summoned to my right hon. Friend 's office and told how to run its affairs . |
| 12 | The learning process for Composers Pen is quite a lengthy one , partly because of the complex ground that it covers , but do not be put off by this as the effort expended will be more than worth it in the end . |
| 13 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 14 | ‘ You thought I should write — after what you said ! ’ she exclaimed , while her heartbeats dully settled , for clearly he was more concerned with where the devil she had got to than with her in particular . |
| 15 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 16 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 17 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 20 | If Verdi 's Don Carlos ( at the Coliseum ) is the greater work , it owes more to Rossini 's example than to anything by Meyerbeer . |
| 21 | It is simply her case that they would be better off with her in England rather than without her in Australia . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 23 | That is the first appearance of the dog , a delicate insertion ; afterwards , Emma holds its head and kisses it ( as Gustave had done to Nero/Thabor ) : the dog has a melancholy expression , and she talks to it as if to someone in need of consolation . |
| 24 | If at one in the morning last night Tod had had his brain switched on , he could have had his minders sort me out there and then . |
| 25 | Then , of course , he 'd send his friends similar notes — ca n't stay tonight , got terrible earache , or my mother 's not very well — because for something like a year or more , he was having a double affair with , — dare I mention her name — Natasha Kornilof , who was a great friend of mine . |
| 26 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 27 | Moderator I 've asked for this new clause to come in immediately after seven because of what in accepting seven we 've just done . |
| 28 | Because of its on site accommodation and excellent working atmosphere , it 's a good location for recording albums , as The 4 Of Ys will doubtless confirm , having returned here to record their second album . |
| 29 | ‘ The Bishop did n't specify in detail what he wanted to know , but I imagine he fears that Father Marr was killed because of something in his unknown past which may not be entirely creditable to the church . |
| 30 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |