Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 2 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 3 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 4 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 5 | The children must be quite clear from the outset about the task in hand ; what is going to be expected from them during the course of the lesson ? |
| 6 | Information is available about members of National Associations , where they are , what they do and how to get in touch with them during the course of business travels . |
| 7 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 8 | Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt . |
| 9 | Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue . |
| 10 | Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’ |
| 11 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 12 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 13 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 14 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 15 | Neighbourhood watch schemes are by their nature genuine voluntary organisations , although they receive Government support , in that substantial resources are devoted to them through the funding of the police , who themselves assist neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 16 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 17 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 18 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 19 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 20 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 21 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 22 | He patted them through the material of his overcoat and walked on . |
| 23 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |
| 24 | take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look |
| 25 | Hibs face a real test of character at Firhill tomorrow after Hearts knocked them off the top of the table . |
| 26 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 27 | This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table . |
| 28 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 29 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 30 | Characters , drawings , etc , that can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the back of the transfer sheet . |