Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were not there , I was not there Saint Mark or the person who wrote this Gospel was not there Someone has recorded this for us looking back on it . |
| 2 | Come , we must choose some for you to take back with you . |
| 3 | Burns had fourteen known children , half of them born out of wedlock . |
| 4 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
| 5 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 6 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |
| 7 | Some of them come back from all over Britain . |
| 8 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 9 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 10 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 11 | Some of them straggled back through Taunton , and being in no hurry to get home settled down in the Floral Gardens , playing guitars and tambourines , smoking joints , dropping acid and chanting mantras . |
| 12 | The lectures in 1871 were from E. J. Reed ( chief constructor of the navy ) on 10 February , on the stability of ironclads following the loss of HMS Captain ; then on 3 March Captain Noble , FRS , late of the Royal Artillery , reported on experiments on the power of gunpowder , some of them carried out with William Armstrong , the armaments manufacturer ; and on 12 May Colonel Drummond Jervois of the Royal Engineers spoke on the defence policy of Great Britain . |
| 13 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 14 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 15 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 16 | There were plenty of kittiwakes , but on closer inspection some of them turned out to be Icelandic gulls . |
| 17 | Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink . |
| 18 | That 's fixed but some some of them started off with a a fo a double sided piece of paper which is thrown away with the rest of the garbage that people keep in their houses . |
| 19 | The rock is also riddled with tunnels , some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below . |
| 20 | We are thus given a means of exploring some of the behaviour ( especially the ‘ irrational ’ behaviour ) of our users , of exploring stories some of which cry out for psychoanalytic examination ( particularly ‘ classics ’ such as Lewis Carroll 's Alice stories and J. M. Barrie 's disturbing Peter Pan ) , and of understanding the profound impact of such books as those of Maurice Sendak . |
| 21 | In fact , the Algarve coastline seems to be littered with a succession of castles and fortresses , some of which date back to Moorish times . |
| 22 | Auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland are selling the 40 antique fans , some of which date back to the beginning of the century . |
| 23 | Other forms of alternative dispute resolution , some of which arise out of Government initiatives , include the involvement of the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service in many industrial disputes , the work of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality in the settlement of disputes in their fields of interest , the role of ‘ ombudsmen ’ to deal with disputes in the banking and insurance worlds , as well as complaints against central and local administration and the National Health Service , the various alternative methods for resolving consumer disputes , and the use of arbitration to resolve commercial dispute in private . |
| 24 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 25 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 26 | He took a mouthful of ale , some of it dribbling down into his stubble . |
| 27 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 28 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 29 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 30 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |