Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them .
2 Many refugees found themselves in the same position .
3 I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
4 The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect .
5 " All communities divide themselves into the few and the many .
6 Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion .
7 Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers .
8 Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them .
9 Most mortgage lenders see you in the same light as everyone else and make no concessions to the lifestyle that lies ahead of you .
10 Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ?
11 We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter .
12 Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary .
13 ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’
14 BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’
15 And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla .
16 Yet another Messiah on ‘ early ’ instruments , conspiring no doubt to send retailers completely mad in their attempts to decide which of the many available readings they should plump for .
17 There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious .
18 How do human beings distinguish which of the many elements of the context are relevant ?
19 Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities .
20 But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way .
21 Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way .
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