Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the person through whom all orders for purchases from project grants must pass , this is clearly a key position in the project 's structure . |
| 2 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 3 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 4 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 5 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 6 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 7 | It would have been easy for me just to put off the difficult decisions we need to take , but I must do what is right for this country . |
| 8 | Bill : The gay movement for me really started with the South London GLF in 1972 . |
| 9 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 10 | To a pragmatist , such as I proudly claim to be , It was difficult to see why this issue should become a hanging matter . |
| 11 | What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure , but I just thought , I 'm just paying for someone else to go on that holiday . |
| 13 | If something needed doing Eva Burrows did n't look around for someone else to see to it . |
| 14 | I used an inadequate metaphor of ‘ face ’ and ‘ mask ’ , suggesting that performing is more akin to creating a mask for someone else to look at . |
| 15 | Of course , keeping a pet , any pet , means that you can not go on holiday without making arrangements for someone else to look after it . |
| 16 | If you plan to go abroad , then clearly you will need to make arrangements for someone else to look after your dog while you are away from home . |
| 17 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
| 18 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 19 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 20 | Still , it was easier to accept Hoffman as Penn 's spokesman than as someone actually living through the film . |
| 21 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 22 | President Assad visited Mubarak in Alexandria on Aug. 28 , after which both called for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and a " restoration of legitimacy " in Kuwait . |
| 23 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 24 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 25 | This is the tone about which least needs to be said , and which is usually regarded as more or less ‘ neutral ’ . |
| 26 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 27 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 28 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 29 | He had links with the rulers purged by the king in 1258 , some of whom likewise emerged as Montfortians in 1263 . |
| 30 | Membership : 7 countries — Benin , Burkina , Côte d'Ivoire , Mali , Mauritania , Niger , Senegal — all of whom also belong to the wider ECOWAS . |