Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we was taken out of there into the Corporation Street where the fair used to be held and we had silhouettes of different aircraft on poles and holding them up and we er so as we could recognize them . |
| 2 | These bodies produce voluminous reports crammed with data on subjects that interest their sponsors . |
| 3 | It involves taking sperm from men and mixing it with their partner 's eggs which are replaced in the Fallopian tube in the GIFT technique — Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer . |
| 4 | By means of Crowns and Keys you can tell exactly what services and facilities to expect . |
| 5 | We will reform benefits for people with disabilities and make it easier for those available for work to take employment . |
| 6 | The management admit they do n't hire people with beards and growing one is a sackable offence . |
| 7 | And at BA 's annual meeting last week , chairman Lord King said : ‘ Our business is to get people into planes and fly them . |
| 8 | Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues ? |
| 9 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 10 | And they 'd buy a brand new pair of boots and take them straight round to the shoe repairer and have an extra sole put on , from brand new to make them last longer . |
| 11 | I bought a new pair of flannels and paid my membership on the spot . |
| 12 | He came up with a pair of binoculars and handed them to Culley . |
| 13 | ‘ He should have put on a pair of tights and joined his daddy in front of the fairy-lights . ’ |
| 14 | He was lying prone , his eyes shut , clad in that pair of briefs that made her eyes linger far too long on his bronzed legs and flat chest . |
| 15 | The project will examine how well people can use their judgement to forecast the future behaviour of a system ( eg. a business , economy or traffic system ) on the basis of a series of observations that characterize its past behaviour . |
| 16 | A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve . |
| 17 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 18 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |
| 19 | If you encounter such words , practise them systematically by a ) tapping the rhythm , b ) mimicking the last few syllables and then gradually building up to the beginning of the word , c ) putting the long word in different position on a series of sentences and practising them , like in following example : Word stress is often modified when the word occurs in a sentence . |
| 20 | Is it best to do a series of accents and get 'em to tick or get 'em |
| 21 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 22 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |