Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty four parents were living with partners , six were single parents , and the remainder lived with their own parents . |
| 2 | The Wilcoxon paired signed rank test or sign test was used when the animals served as their own controls . |
| 3 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 4 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 5 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 6 | Benjamin tried his best to make light conversation but Mandeville and Southgate were withdrawn , Sir John Santerre lost in his own thoughts , Lady Beatrice looked anxious whilst the pale-faced Rachel merely toyed with her food . |
| 7 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 8 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 9 | Many country banks lent in their own notes , but others did so only in coin or in Bank of England notes or bills and drafts . |
| 10 | EFFORTS to get Cleveland scrapped and Yorkshire restored to its former boundaries are being stepped up with renewed efforts by white-rose enthusiasts . |
| 11 | What the PBI felt about their own gunners may be gauged from a French estimate that out of ten shells falling on a Verdun trench , ‘ on an average two were provided by the friendly artillery ’ . |
| 12 | As she limped into the farmhouse behind Seb , Carrie thought of her own words . |
| 13 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 14 | But in a world where nature left to its own devices is as grim as it is in much of the Soviet Union , the belief that you can bend it on the heroic scale is unlikely to go away . |
| 15 | Erm , but at the moment , the majority of that you provide , as indeed , for emergency admissions and assessment admissions erm , with considerable use made within your own homes on that . |
| 16 | Such basic matters as what people believed about their own bodies — made up of humours — or their pasts are juxtaposed with fascinating excursions into such areas of belief as the fairies and mythical beasts . |
| 17 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 18 | Later , Cole comes near to conceding the point : ‘ in the eighties , Trade Unionism and Consumer Co-operation went on their several ways , each shedding much of its earlier idealism and each settling down to consolidate its position within somewhat narrowly delineated fields ’ , which will do as an anodyne description but which , in suppressing the pain , obscures the diagnosis . |
| 19 | Claudia dressed in her own clothes , a dazed expression on her face that effectively silenced the questions Myra wanted to ask . |
| 20 | Jaq wondered at his own motives for wishing to view the mock-Stealer changing back into a woman — teasing , ambivalent motives . |
| 21 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 22 | The pathologist looked at his own hands and stripped off his surgical gloves , dropping them into a plastic bag . |
| 23 | It was by such means — both ‘ feudal ’ and non-feudal — that the house of Foix-Béarn exercised some degree of control over those members of the Gascon nobility whose lordships lay outside their own domains . |
| 24 | Land left to its own devices is not always attractive to look at . |
| 25 | Dr Elizabeth Elliott , who works at Darlington Memorial Hospital , said it was important health services in Darlington and Bishop Auckland remained within their own areas . |
| 26 | With uncanny certainty , Theda knew that Lady Merchiston referred to her own words . |
| 27 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 28 | Bowyer was drunk , Benjamin lost in his own thoughts or seduced by Rachel 's flattery , Mandeville and Southgate were revelling in the manor 's hospitality whilst Santerre , whose conduct was suspicious to say the least , played the role of smiling host . |
| 29 | The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members . |
| 30 | At the entrance to the laboratory complex the others drew on their own masks . |