Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
| 2 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 3 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 4 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 5 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation . |
| 6 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it . |
| 7 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 8 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 9 | Bollocks there 's honey on it , do n't talk shit it 's pure sugar |
| 10 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |