Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they also recognize the crucial role played by ideas of different kinds : for Bottoms the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal looms large , for Fitzgerald and Sim there are crises of legitimacy and authority , Woolf stresses prisoners ' sense of injustice , while Hall charts the creation of an ideology of law and order . |
| 2 | George takes the responsibility for Lennie and accepts him gradually . |
| 3 | I talk about Bernard and tell them he is in publishing . |
| 4 | Sadly , experience suggests that most doctors would have thought the booklet to be just more advertising for Opren and thrown it straight into their wastepaper basket , unless the representative drew particular attention to the studies in question . |
| 5 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 6 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 7 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |
| 8 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 9 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 10 | Rain thought this unusually malicious for Wainfleet and wondered what could possibly be behind it . |
| 11 | The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital . |
| 12 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 13 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 14 | I could of done the same at home , I would of liked to have looked after Neil and kept my own electric |
| 15 | He fought for Orkney and won it , against men just like Siward . |
| 16 | Mrs Prentice fussed about Boardwalk and congratulated its jockey . |
| 17 | Chettle looking for Rozario and finds him and it goes towards Collimore just cleared in the nick of time by Whitlow . |
| 18 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 19 | well I know when , I know when Alan and Jade were both made emplo , unemployed and Alan withdrawal his dole and when Jade was unemployed they took the dole off Alan and give him sixty pound a week which was you know |
| 20 | And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off . |
| 21 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 22 | I was t I was telling about my mum today , I was telling her , him about Spain and stuff it was so funny . |
| 23 | Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk . |
| 24 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 25 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 26 | Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point . |
| 27 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 28 | Now they came to King Michael 's white city of Ledyen and raised their tents beneath its walls . |
| 29 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 30 | And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid . |