Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst you might use these behaviours and through them create an impression of being genuine , it will , of course , quickly be destroyed unless you do what you say you will do . |
| 2 | The site at Jelling now consists of two turf mounds , and between them stand a stone church and the rune stones , the larger of which weighs nearly ten tons . |
| 3 | After what seem an eternity , but which in reality could only have been about fifteen minutes , the paramedics from the county ambulance service arrived , and under David 's supervision the serious business of trying to lift Len out began . |
| 4 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 5 | ( b ) Where an order is subject to a negative resolution it must be laid before Parliament ( usually for 40 days ) during which time a member can move a prayer to annul it . |
| 6 | Give it a rich soil in full sun and it will pay for its keep a thousandfold . |
| 7 | Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month . |
| 8 | According to Laboratoires Garnier who make Permifique , over 6 million women in the UK have permed hair , a third of whom choose a home per . |
| 9 | The Unix community , many of whom own a piece of USL , could do worse than promote a of church/state relationship between USL ( as Unix mentor ) and the practitioners of statecraft ( Unix providers ) who are also believers . |
| 10 | The Scrutiny Committee ( the Joint Select Committee on Statutory Instruments ) , latest in a line of successors to a House of Commons select committee first appointed in 1944 , is a committee of 14 ( 7 MPs and 7 peers ) , any 2 of whom constitute a quorum . |
| 11 | The British , French and Russians , each of whom have a veto in the Security Council , have deep misgivings about lifting it . |
| 12 | Here Japan and South Korea , both of whom have a surfeit of nationalistic fervour , have a huge advantage . |
| 13 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 14 | Some of them take a second or two to stop whirring and clacking as they wind tape off a drum . |
| 15 | Often called laser printers because many of them use a semiconductor laser to expose the image onto the drum , they are based on photocopier technology and produce an excellent substitute for traditionally typeset material , so long as the quality requirements are not paramount . |
| 16 | Looking at our four speakers : Susan , Stephen , Carol and Joan , we find that all of them use a form phonetically different from the LE/RP sound . |
| 17 | " 'Let each of them plant a vine , and I will marry the man whose vine first bears fruit . " |
| 18 | Their long skirts make them look as though they glide on wheels along the riverside track ; both of them hold a spindle , working and talking all their way . |
| 19 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 20 | This allows the archers to be deployed in two ranks on the slopes where all of them get a chance to fire , not just the front rank . |
| 21 | But to say that an immune deficiency here and an immune deficiency there constitutes one or even two closely related diseases is like saying that apples explain oranges merely because both of them contain a number of pips . |
| 22 | They do them though , with a wonderful spirit and grace and two of them present a kind of duet which evokes a spontaneous roar of applause . |
| 23 | Many of them offer a mail-order service or can give you details of your local stockist . |
| 24 | I ca n't speak for London hotels , but basically in this region we have a fair number of esteemed country house hotels , as well as the inner town hotels , and all of them offer a service at a very competitive price , and perhaps this is something we should encourage — the American visitor to stay out of London erm and come and stay in London 's country , as we call ourselves , round the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 25 | None of these phenomena is sufficiently specific to permit its use as a diagnostic test of IBS nor do any of them offer an explanation of how symptoms are generated . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 27 | The great majority of the children were recommended to the school because they presented severe management difficulties to teachers in mainstream schools and many of them experience a multiplicity of adversities in their personal lives A majority of children have intractable learning difficulties , and few of them have responded to conventional interventions by members of child guidance clinic teams or remedial services before admission . |
| 28 | ‘ And some of them do a turn , ’ said Lawrence . |
| 29 | ‘ Why on earth would either of them do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 30 | So it does pay you to be a member of R A C , National Breakdown , A A or whatever because at least most of them provide a service where they can take you to your destination and or arrange further transport for you . |