Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |
| 2 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 3 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 4 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 5 | It 's only when you pursue the associations with the manifest content and ask yourself what does that make me think of , that you start to think of things that you then realize leads to a latent content , which may be sexual in , in , in nature , but why er , even if , as Theresa rightly says , we d we have to say it 's crude and misrepresentational for that all , all , all dreams are about sex . |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ Husband went on , ‘ we have to deal with matters as they now stand . |
| 7 | Usually , I never feel I have to complain about competitions as they 're always judged fairly by Steve ‘ Fishnet Tights ? ’ |