Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Plato argued there must be an intrinsic connection between words and what they mean — .
2 of times and it you need to be out there
3 Whether the men used me or not , I now have a better understanding of relationships and what I want from them .
4 They have n't give you the breakdown of donations and who they give it to ?
5 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
6 she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away .
7 Went shopping or whatever , as I say , it , it , it , a couple of days or whatever you feel , if you , if you , if you want to get into it you might find you want to do them all
8 This was an extraordinary state of affairs but one which enabled Rodrigo del Bivar to serve so many masters without apparent conflict .
9 Provided people assess their own utility by the quantity of goods that they themselves receive , B is a better allocation than A which in turn is a better allocation than C. But a comparison of A with points such as D , E or F , requires us to adopt a value judgement about the relative importance to us of David 's and Susie 's utility .
10 The supplier had a number of names and no-one who dealt with him knew , or cared to know , which was the real one .
11 She attended an excellent direct-grant grammar school ( which has since gone independent , much to Robyn 's disgust ) where she was Head Girl and Captain of Games and which she left with four A grades at A-Level .
12 we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil !
13 Only she does n't care much for things or what she eats , what she wants are people , action .
14 And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable .
15 With a horse , I had a horse then , and er there u there used to be er there used to be three or four of us there with horses and we we used to The the the From the coal face there used to be all individual horses bringing odd tubs into a turnout What we called a turner which was a collection of different tubs you see ?
16 I learned an awful lot about audiences and what they want . ’
17 We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on .
18 It is suggested that one of the reasons for this may be a cyclical process , whereby some research supervisors set their students problems in areas where they themselves undertook their own Ph D research .
19 I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable .
20 Perhaps , after all , sir , you could walk down Pennsylvania Avenue without being clapped in irons or whatever they do to you over in those parts .
21 And it 's raw linseed oil , you dip your you have it in a dish and you dip this pad into the into this dish and you put a little drop of raw linseed oil on that , and you work it in and you go round and round in circles and you you know , I mean , and that 's left .
22 ‘ We are in the market for players but whoever we sign will have to earn the right to be in the team . ’
23 Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks .
24 ‘ I really want to know more about girls and what they feel about sex and love .
25 She brings home everything except potatoes and anyone who says that one ca n't get fresh vegetables in London must do her shopping by telephone , she is convinced .
26 A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call .
27 A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call .
28 Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more .
29 Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us .
30 This shows the lifetime reproductive success of er hinds as opposed to stags and what it shows is that hinds start their reproductive life earlier , soon after age two , and they continue it longer , right up to age seventeen .
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