Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay has anyone had a think about what they want to do ? |
| 2 | In fact , many women feel that tzniut , or modesty , is not only a protection for her which serves as a ‘ hands off ’ signal to men , but also allows a responsibility for her own actions . |
| 3 | The atmosphere which is evoked in the reading of the poem is one of hopelessness , of resignation , of dark depression and sadness alleviated only by the concluding couplet through which we understand that although oncoming death seems to ‘ take away ’ everything from him , his beloved still remains and can see the glimmers of life through desolation . |
| 4 | Like the faith for which they argue , the best books are there not to collect dust but to stretch minds and to shed light . |
| 5 | However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning . |
| 6 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 7 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 8 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 9 | But er at , prior to the fire there was , there was a division between what they called the , the catapult shop , er the machine shop and the fitting shop . |
| 10 | The general election will be the opportunity for which we have waited . |
| 11 | Her wide blue eyes focused on his face and then blurred as a safety defence for something she did n't want to see . |
| 12 | Problems with a terminal or page printer would be considered a lower level problem than a problem with the disk units or processor for which we have no spares . |
| 13 | She was so transparent that there seemed nothing but clear skin between what she felt and what she said . |
| 14 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 15 | Instead of building a case for ourselves we attack the opponent or his case . |
| 16 | THE COMMITMENTS is Alan Parker 's new film and represents a change of direction for him which has been phenomenally successful . |
| 17 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Rachel 's cot cost £130 and we bought a horsehair mattress for it which cost £50 — expensive but it will last a long time . |
| 19 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 20 | If you 're interested in standing for any of those or wan na put someone forward to stand for one of those , come to the elections in room six two three , six two four Friday the twenty sixth at two fifteen twenty third , I 'm sorry , at two fifteen and er not only will you get all the , the general info about what I 've done so far this year , what I intend to do , what next year 's budget 's going to be etcetera , that 's when those elections are actually held . |
| 21 | The catalyst for everything which had happened had been Simon , she brooded . |
| 22 | And here … sign this blank cheque for what you owe . |
| 23 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 24 | Now I 'm lucky , I have four children no problems as such , and I have great sympathy for anyone who goes through all this to have a child ! |
| 25 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 26 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 27 | Old Mother Thames will be keeping mum about what she has in store for them … until the big day in April . |
| 28 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 29 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 30 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |