Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 2 | I think you will care for them even less than I. ’ |
| 3 | I am fighting for them as much as for the shareholders . |
| 4 | The short messages from home , the frustrating glimpses of Jill and my parents on video still spurred me to hold on , for them as much as for me . |
| 5 | The fact that Branson had not a clue what ‘ synergy ’ meant was just one sign that he found the understanding between them somewhat less than ‘ magical ’ . |
| 6 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 7 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 8 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 9 | She was a typical Fifties phenomenon , a celebrity contrived out of sex appeal and publicity alone , both of them rather naive and innocent by the standards of subsequent hype and hoop-la . |
| 10 | People were sitting huddled in groups , many of them thoroughly dejected and miserable . |
| 11 | After the lecture he answered many questions , some of them pretty informed and which included some on Jack the Ripper which our publicity had mentioned . |
| 12 | Successful students study in a variety of different ways , most of them equally valid and effective — so it would be presumptuous or simply wrong to recommend any one proven pattern of study ha bits and tell all students to conform to that pattern . |
| 13 | He spoke with a strong Irish accent , soon to be a familiar sound on board since most of the emigrants were Irish — and most of them as scrawny and hollow-cheeked as he was . |
| 14 | They 've had some more of them as far as that did n't they ? |
| 15 | If I had a storehouse full of confidence , I would gladly give each one of them as much as they needed . |
| 16 | These brochs ( a word derived from the Old Norse borg — a citadel — later transmuted into borough ) nearly all followed one basic pattern : that of a large circular dwelling with drystone walls up to 15 feet thick , and some of them as much as 50 feet high . |
| 17 | There is part of that grass cutting probably due to the fact that our pavements are also covered in grass , some of them as much as two foot on either side , and you 've got two foot down the middle , going like that , where the grass is growing and has not been cut back since nineteen seventy four . |
| 18 | Cos I thought of them as rough but |
| 19 | Tallis realized with a start that the Daurog 's body was alive with woodlice , some of them as large as leaves themselves . |
| 20 | They were as clean you know , the backs of them as clean as my hand . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're going to get a job and get shot of them as quick as possible . |
| 22 | There were few changes in any of them as obvious as those which overtook Brighthelmstone , and their populations remained quite small , Chichester , the largest , having only about half Brighton 's in 1801 . |
| 23 | Some 800,000 people are caught there , many of them still living as refugees , from a war fought nearly half a century ago , in camps without space or hope . |
| 24 | The Earl of Argyll , Archibald Campbell , introduced him to many of the Scottish nobles , and he found some of them less objectionable than he 'd expected . |
| 25 | She got lost in the labyrinth of yards and passageways that separated the numerous buildings , many of them apparently disused or derelict , that covered the factory site , and there was nobody around to direct her . |
| 26 | The intra-mural zone also contains other buildings , most of them relatively small and simple . |
| 27 | The ‘ young ’ elderly of the future — active , many of them relatively affluent and in their sixties — will become an important and powerful group of consumers , Mr Hobbs said . |
| 28 | There is a range of possibilities offered in the literature concerned with ‘ motivation ’ for reading , some of them more convincing than others . |
| 29 | There are various possible causes — most of them more likely than cancer . |
| 30 | The government gave a series of reasons for its decision , some of them more plausible than others ; but the main aim seemed to be to acquire cash or foreign credit for the rehabilitation of its industries . |