Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 2 | watch this till about I normally watch this till about two . |
| 3 | In addition , he had to mould a group of individuals , some of whom barely knew each other , into a team . |
| 4 | A rather strange collection of men and women , thought Rupert with an anthropologist 's detachment , none of whom really know each other but between whom waves and currents of feeling are already beginning to pass . |
| 5 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 6 | Sally-Anne had finished putting her things down , and was feeling enormously hungry as well as thirsty — Papa had once said that she had an appetite as indecent as his own , and the wonder was that neither of them ever put any weight on ! |
| 7 | you know and various things like that but none of them actually mean any concrete decision on that . |
| 8 | There are a number of biographies of Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader ; but none of them really casts much light on his attitude to the crisis . |
| 9 | The Doctor let out a long slow breath , and considered his options , since even if he succeeded in stopping Mait , there was always the risk of someone else finding this place the next time the stars were in the correct alignment . |
| 10 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 11 | Its long-term prospects as far as mass marketing is concerned are still uncertain and will depend upon the ability of airlines to keep their prices down and upon relative exchange rate movements , both of which disproportionately affect this sector . |
| 12 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 13 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 14 | However , most of us now admit that reason unassisted by observation can never break out of the closed circle of logic and mathematics . |
| 15 | ( I an happy to report , however , that none of us now has any fear at all of dogs — indeed familiarity has made us quite fond of them . ) |
| 16 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 17 | Like nobody else had any right to be normal . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I would love , ’ he said , ‘ to go along with you just to see this horse do the work . ’ |
| 20 | Although supplementary pensions and allowances ensure that basic needs are met , those who are entirely dependent upon them certainly suffer some degree of hardship compared with the standard of living of the majority of citizens , and strenuous efforts are being made to raise the level of the government 's ‘ guaranteed income ’ . |
| 21 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 22 | We owe it to them never to surrender this country to those whose motive for murder is your place of work . |
| 23 | They also believe that the safety of a husband 's life and his prosperity depends on their scrupulously following all pollution taboos and keeping strictly to the purity rules . |
| 24 | I might as well just save my pound and give it to whoever fucking wins that thing cos I 've never won it . |
| 25 | I mean just lately they seem to they really slang each other do n't they ? |
| 26 | Nostalgia invaded the PFK office as we worked on our largest-ever issue this month . |