Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a few prisoners have mentioned it to me without being prompted |
| 2 | In recent years , some groups have decreased their cigarette consumption . |
| 3 | Some birds do lose their way . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , some builders do maintain their own stores , particularly when the company is engaged in small works . |
| 5 | Near the draw dock some longshoremen had heaped it up and set light to it , to clear the area . |
| 6 | ‘ Debauched little madam , what am I going to do with you ? ’ he teased , and in a few minutes had shown her very definitely what possibilities he had in mind . |
| 7 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 8 | The Union has completely exhausted its competence in the area of so-called concurrent legislation , where the Lander also have a role to play , and indeed in some cases has exceeded its responsibilities . |
| 9 | Even before the advent of the Russians some Yakuts had established themselves far to the north on the river Yana , where the Russian fort of Verkhoyansk was founded . |
| 10 | ARMED with microscopes , miniature drills and an infinite capacity for taking pains , a few palaeontologists have redrawn their profession 's picture of early life . |
| 11 | Rather than set formal tests , some researchers prefer to base their inferences on the child 's performance on less formal tasks ; the Goodenough draw-a-man test , for example , scores how sophisticated children 's pictures are . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 13 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 14 | Despite the common faults of publishing poetry and extensive reviews of other fanzines ( some fanzines seem to contain nothing else ! ) |
| 15 | Despite the common faults of publishing poetry and extensive reviews of other fanzines ( some fanzines seem to contain nothing else ! ) |
| 16 | No , what I 'm saying is some schools have lost it in year eleven as well . |
| 17 | It may be that in attempting to start team teaching without the experience of preliminary resource-based and other approaches and without a great deal of shared discussion and curriculum planning some schools have plunged their staffs into an experience for which they were by no means ready . |
| 18 | Some schools have transformed their youngest classes so they resemble nursery schools , says Sandra Brown . |
| 19 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 20 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 21 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 22 | He had n't meant any harm but his few words had set her against him . |
| 23 | The last few months had taught him quite clearly that a good knowledge of writing , reading and arithmetic was no longer enough . |
| 24 | Usually it was a relief to be free of those gentle and accusing ghosts , which in the last few months had visited her less often . |
| 25 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 26 | Besides , some heads like to lord it over local parents — particularly over the pushy ones . |
| 27 | Some shops have taken it off the shelves . |
| 28 | Editor Simon Hinde warns that some insurers have increased their premiums by as much as 20 times the inflation rate to pay for past losses . |
| 29 | The maker 's marks on some English watchcases suggest that some manufacturers continued to make their cases from sterling silver and this has been confirmed by analysis . |
| 30 | When the U S authorities failed to undertake domestic policies to remedy the external situation , some countries started to exercise their option of converting their dollar balances into gold . |