Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 2 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 3 | Even where deep affection remains unaltered , the gap between them often becomes a chasm as years go by . |
| 4 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 5 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 6 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
| 7 | None of them even read a newspaper . |
| 8 | Many of them also offer a mail-order service |
| 9 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 10 | Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom . |
| 11 | I think what what what never ceases to amaze me about about people in the flats on benefit , is is how many of them do manage , how many of them never owe a penny . |
| 12 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |
| 13 | Because it seems to me , many of them actually require a site specific evaluation or an area specific evaluation in quite detailed terms to be able to come to any sensible conclusion . |
| 14 | Did he need a bit of help with his I mean a lot of them did made them that sort of I just found a lot of was so so behind and so |
| 15 | Once more , there is no record of his actually completing a transaction . |
| 16 | Fat chance of you even getting a council house nowadays . ’ |
| 17 | And when your time was out there was no question of you not getting a journeyman 's wages you were you were paid that alright . |
| 18 | Despite most of you already having a shower , 80 per cent are planning to install a new shower in the near future . |
| 19 | Have any of you ever seen a seal ? |
| 20 | He was a bit proud and pushy and disturbed the group when he challenged them : ‘ Have any of you ever caught a bear with your bare hands ? ’ |
| 21 | My , the two of you certainly have a knack of finding corpses , do n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | From then on , as though that had conjured up a bleak picture of him never having a life with his love , he began to sound quite despairing . |
| 23 | A friend of mine recently found a beauty that became redundant and unloved when a local school closed down . |
| 24 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |
| 25 | Then I pull some of it out to clear a bit of space . |
| 26 | Zinc is the latest : lack of it supposedly causes a range of problems , although little scientific evidence supports the link . |
| 27 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 28 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 29 | Some of us even manage a blowjob or two while our gigs are in progress . |
| 30 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |