Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight .
2 In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy .
3 Mark generally uses the flesh of his r/hand thumb and first finger , plus occasionally his second ( do n't use your fingernails ) , and for support he tends to rest his palm on the bridge and his remaining fingers on the front of the guitar …
4 He had also taken to haunting the Holborn offices of The Little Magazine : for hours he sat crouched in the coffee bars and sandwich nooks opposite , with the unsettled intention of springing out at Sixsmith — if he ever say him , which he never did .
5 He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ?
6 The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning .
7 When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men .
8 Judge William Crawford QC ordered Ganguly to do 200 hours community service and to pay £500 compensation for damage he caused breaking into Ideas for Furnishing in Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough .
9 So there 's no shortage of water in that area , er and even in some dock areas and dock for instance they 've got special fire mains which are pressurised , which give a lot of water at a high pressure , so you can pump from there .
10 Now we , let's say for instance we 've got five hundred thousand members of the church , and they in turn have a circle of friends and relatives of ten now you do n't need to be a mathematician to find out that 's five million .
11 For instance we have argued elsewhere that if accountability is interpreted in a professional sense then the question of intelligibility to lay audiences is rarely an issue because the primary audience is teachers ' professional colleagues .
12 If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients .
13 For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago .
14 For instance it agreed to abolish the slave trade .
15 For instance you had to know the names , the cast list .
16 Mainly from my my M F I experience as a retail salesman I mean I dealt with contractors erm that for instance you know did up did up complete complexes bought loads of kitchens and bedrooms and that type of thing let er letting companies
17 For instance you 've got a , you 've got er staff here , half of them are women , would that be the same situation in schools in there ?
18 The benefits of Eastern investment can be seen in February 's unemployment figures for Sunderland they have dropped by 314 on the previous month , thanks in the main to the ‘ Nissan effect ’ and the start of a huge recruitment campaign for 1,500 workers .
19 For March we have decided to have a members ' evening .
20 We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided .
21 It 's such a new level of value for money we 've named this cooker the Debut .
22 They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors .
23 Durfey may have written the lyrics himself , adding a coded signature to cock a snook at his detractors ( ‘ The Town may da-da-da-m me as a poet , but they sing my songs for all that ’ ) ; or he may conceivably have acted the part himself , for money he appeared to need , and plenty of laughs backstage .
24 As to that college novice , Williams , I have ordered my attorney to throw him instantly into gaol on an action of debt for money he has borrowed from me .
25 ‘ When I played for Bangor we loved putting one over on Linfield or Glentoran — and nothing seems to have changed .
26 In between times he has worked in Grattan St. , Sligo 1969–74 , Laurence St. , Drogheda 1975–77 and Swinford 1977–84 .
27 You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’
28 Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company .
29 In his will he left sizeable sums for schools he had built in his home parishes , as well as for Christ 's Hospital , of which he had been a donation governor in 1833 .
30 But some of Buckmaster 's requests for data I suspect emanate from Morgan … ’
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