Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Mary Campbell of Boquhan , a lady with important political connections in the town of Stirling , sent Drummond with her letter of recommendation to call on Lord Milton , the intermediary through whom much of the Duke of Argyll 's patronage was distributed . |
| 2 | He even asked me about them up at the manor . |
| 3 | The roles of parents and children gradually become reversed and children start to look after their parents and worry about them instead of the other way around . |
| 4 | The other two barmaids , all agog , who would talk about nothing else for the rest of the Gay . |
| 5 | Tim and Richard talk about nothing else in the staff room . |
| 6 | In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills . |
| 7 | But for him , as for everyone else in the capital , the course of events must now have been discerned as inevitable . |
| 8 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 9 | Listen to Granny-Liz : " Becky , with you moving about me here on the verandah , I hope you do n't have any centipedes or scorpions in a jam jar in your pocket . " |
| 10 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 11 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 12 | She had promised to sing for them later in the evening if she was n't too tired . |
| 13 | ‘ It ca n't have been easy for them either over the past week , not knowing who they 'd be playing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We can wait for them here on the highway . ’ |
| 15 | If the costs allowed on taxation are not paid within 14 days after taxation upon application ( Ord 22 , r 5 ) , judgment may be entered for them together with the costs of entering such judgment . |
| 16 | He 's waitin' for them now at the railway station . |
| 17 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 18 | and is Omar Hassan now riding for them too in the US ? |
| 19 | The issue of how to attract wider audiences to Europe 's museums , and how to cater for them once past the doors , will be the topic of a European Community conference to be held at the Burrell Collection , Glasgow , from 26 to 28 November . |
| 20 | Wearily , she began to look for them all over the theatre . |
| 21 | ‘ You can see from the map how the frontiers between them here in the south are not made very good . |
| 22 | He was at peace with her while he reasoned and thought before speaking ; and the lengthening silence had neither weight nor tension , but lay between them gently like the comfortable warmth of a fire . |
| 23 | Tabitha patted the air between them sharply with the palms of her hands . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think that is the right thing for me just at the moment . |
| 25 | That holiday morning I found Miss Louise waiting for me just inside the door with a pair of old shoes and a pair of slippers in her hands . |
| 26 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 27 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 28 | ‘ I work rather odd hours but you can always leave a message for me here at the cafe . |
| 29 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 30 | Okay could you sign that for me please down the bottom there . |