Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
| 2 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 3 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 4 | Hm , hello there , could I speak to please in the sales office ? |
| 5 | I ache from here to the top . |
| 6 | I 'm working with ideas , still writing songs , so I have my personal input from that , plus I 'm always interested in the input and suggestions I get from the letters I receive from all over the world . |
| 7 | I walked in there into the er geography room and erm this chap turned round and said hello Miss . |
| 8 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 9 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 10 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 11 | Sure enough , I went over there with the other inspectors and we said to the sergeants : ‘ Fall in the men . ’ |
| 12 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 13 | Mrs McDougall , how do I get from here to the cottage ? |
| 14 | See , when I come in here on a night , it 's not the IRA I 'm worried about , it 's them upstairs . |
| 15 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 16 | Determined not spend my life in this manner , I continued to reapply to the postgraduate art courses . |
| 17 | I work until late into the night most nights . |
| 18 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 19 | For this was something which came from right outside the audience 's experience or expectations . |
| 20 | And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world . |
| 21 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 22 | At Sunbury , XTP 's activities are directed towards helping the business add value by early and expert use of technology — much of which originates from outside in the contractors , competitors , and at BPX sites . |
| 23 | Police have issued an appeal for witnesses to the accident , which happened at 11.55am at the junction of Allington Way and Lingfield Way . |
| 24 | Police have issued an appeal for witnesses to the accident , which happened at 11.55am at the junction of Allington Way and Lingfield Way . |
| 25 | John Major 's announcement — which left him obviously shaken — was the culmination of a day of behind-the-scenes constitutional drama which began at 10am with a crisis meeting of the Government 's top ministers . |
| 26 | ‘ Just now , ’ they told me ‘ it is the Garara ( trousers which flare from just above the knee ) and quite a short Kamiz to go with it and of course a Dupatta ( a long light scarf ) in georgette in an exactly matching colour ’ . |
| 27 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 28 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 29 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 30 | You can stand here and look at all these trees which come from all over the world , and we 're open all year round and there 's always something to see , and the views are spectacular . |