Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets .
2 One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time .
3 You could show it a scene , while its two special nodes are free , and see if either or both of them come on .
4 . There has n't been one game we 've been there that he has n't or both of them have n't .
5 We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off
6 In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 .
7 And now Altarus has uncovered buried treasure where most of us did n't know there was a stone to be turned over , in this two-CD set of the six Piano Sonatas by Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté .
8 Now , if you 've got nowhere else , erm , at the bottom end of the door to fit it , that 's fine , but as a matter of a preference , Crime Prevention like to see them fitted a third of the way up the door , that is where our thieves put the boot in , and thieves will work to pressure points , to leverage points they come equipped , or most of them do n't come equipped , because obviously if they 're walking along the street and a police officer sees them , you know , pull them over and start to talk to them , most of them will actually er use the tools from the back garden or or things they find lying around to help themselves in .
9 After lunch , where both of us drank too much red wine , we were taken to the wild boar pens and told to clean them out .
10 They argued ferociously about Ireland , although neither of them knew too much about it .
11 Although each of them gave greatly inflated estimates of their membership , reliable intelligence reports suggest that they were shoestring operations with minimal popular impact .
12 The first , having to do with the very nature of the notations , is that some of them have certainly been added at a later date .
13 Can I have a look at those menus that some of you brought in did i , cos we 've got some with a la carte did anybody get sort of erm a pub grub menu or No , you all went for the top of the range .
14 His magnificent gifts of drawing — not exaggerating — character and of getting an atmosphere have so worked that few of us have not been to sea in frigates before the age of eighteen and come in some way in contact with non-comfortable men and women .
15 More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century .
16 ‘ No , although some of them become very successful at this business .
17 Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions .
18 No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else .
19 the worst meal I think , er , I went with Dorothy , it was the worst meal out , we both said that , that either of us had ever had ever had anywhere
20 We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends ’ before .
21 On the other hand , if we were to take our sample from those families with above-average measured incomes , we would expect to find that many of them had only temporarily high incomes so that average transitory income would be positive and Y p < Y. Similarly , for a sample of families with below-average measured incomes , we should expect to find that Y T < 0 and Y p > Y.
22 But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held .
23 If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is .
24 If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is .
25 He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough .
26 One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement .
27 Scottish parents are apparently even more likely to do this — one in three parents never protect their children from its harmful rays despite the fact that many of them have particularly delicate skin .
28 ‘ The problem is that many of them have now passed on . ’
29 I 'm of the opinion that the reason they remain in opposition is that many of them have very little in common with the very people that they 're supposed to represent .
30 Increasingly , they are taking students with non A-level qualifications and finding that many of them perform superbly .
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