Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 11.2.2 where the Signage of 11.2.1 can not be removed or destroyed painting or otherwise covering from sight all signage incurring any of the Trade Marks in so far at least as it relates to the Trade Marks , |
| 2 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 3 | We sat like that for what seemed like hours until we could not cry any longer . |
| 4 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
| 5 | Would you like us to do that for you free of charge ? or would you prefer to pay one thousand five hundred a year to a management consultant ? |
| 6 | So I 'll leave that for you to play with and erm I better give your mum a shout because I should have gone by now . |
| 7 | About half of them went to British colonies , mainly to the sugar islands , and the rest were sold in other colonies in the Americas . |
| 8 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 9 | Even with the improved health record of the USA and a population four to five times bigger than Britain 's , more than 1 million Americans suffer a heart attack each year and more than half of them die before reaching hospital . |
| 10 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 11 | Half of them live at Stantonbury , 437 between two and three miles distant , the remainder three to six miles away , mostly on farms and in villages with relatives or connections , and they would not come to live at Wolverton even if cottages were provided for them . |
| 12 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | Half of them going to X-ray my back , and the X-ray does n't . |
| 14 | Despite the large numbers of cases reported in the American literature , half of them associated with menstruation , the original description of Todd et al in 1978 was of seven patients all aged 8–17 years and none associated with menstruation . |
| 15 | They stood quietly in the light rain , and more than half of them sucked at their ice creams . |
| 16 | Rather , it was the product of near-collapse in the state supply and distribution system , of technical breakdown , and of storage , transport and labour problems which meant that up to half of what had in fact been a bumper harvest in 1990 had been allowed to rot . |
| 17 | Half of me wanted to ‘ wow ’ everyone with how good I looked — show them I could do it , be thin if I wanted — but half of me also wanted them not to notice . |
| 18 | About 12,000 attended , including about 2,000 Blackshirts , half of whom acted as stewards . |
| 19 | Dorchester had a population of about 6,500 in 1851 , half of whom resided in the parish of Fordington . |
| 20 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 21 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 22 | Young people from 18 to 28 spend three months living and working with local communities in Tanzania at a cost of £2,250 , half of which goes towards project support . |
| 23 | Wilson ( Alliance ) was elected with a surplus at Stage IX after the transfer of Agnew 's ( UPNI ) votes nearly half of which went to him . |
| 24 | The predominant unit of production in rural Cuba is the state farm , although there exists , despite the nationalisation of privately owned businesses in the 1960s , a distinct private sector in the countryside , half of which lies in Oriente province the home of the peasants who supported Castro in his bid for power . |
| 25 | Theirs was also the only three-wheeler in the Monte Carlo Challenge , run over the traditional route , and their 1933 Morgan completed the gruelling 2,000-mile distance to finish 82nd out of 100 cars , half of which travelled from starting points in Berlin and Oslo . |
| 26 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 27 | Half of it remains to be saved . |
| 28 | When you join the company there 's so many J S words , I mean you just , you just , I mean half of it goes over your head , I mean it 's get that go get that out of the buffer room . |
| 29 | He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor . |
| 30 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |