Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |
| 2 | I am also visiting the various sites over coming weeks and look forward to hearing your views about how we can work together to secure the best outcome for AEA and its employees . |
| 3 | The PR person is very often in a cleft stick between how he knows the media will react to his story and the sometimes almost mindless enthusiasm of his client or boss . |
| 4 | ‘ Everybody was full of conjecture about where we were going . |
| 5 | There are good biological reasons for why it is so difficult to produce drugs that will knock out viral infections . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've got two other reasons for why you should take that money . ’ |
| 7 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 8 | And then there is a different thing called date rape but there is no excuse for either I do n't think . |
| 9 | The funding councils no longer have the power , as they had in the original Bill , to direct institutions about how they should spend funds derived from private sources . |
| 10 | Using this approach , words gain their meanings through how they are used in context ( by iteration through a training set ) , such that each word in the lexicon implicitly represents all the language-use experiences in which it has so far been involved . |
| 11 | So , darling , keep mum about where we are . |
| 12 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 13 | The initial dialogue too , includes queries about when you wish to retire and what you require for breakfast . |
| 14 | His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid . |
| 15 | In the meantime Lowell had made do with powdered milk for both him and the animal . |
| 16 | Its breath fled outwards into snow-bright dawn and it spat Jezrael through when she would have stuck in the slit . |
| 17 | The parents need to recognize the link between how they try to manage the behaviour and the occurrence of the behaviour , so reactions like smacking , shouting , nagging , sulking , giving in , or ignoring need to be identified . |
| 18 | PLZ ARE Londoner DJ Pogo and ex-pat US rappers Regi and Fredi , and is a debut for both them and the GFTJ label . |
| 19 | Erm I 've had a quick look through so I 'm trying to remember er what we 've got coming . |
| 20 | He explained : ‘ It 's great to clatter the bowling about when you get the chance , but I do n't want to be thought of simply as a big hitter . |
| 21 | Could you tell me a little bit about when you first moved to Harlow , because it interests me very much the fact , I did n't , I was n't aware that you lived in a , house that was |
| 22 | Er er only we the bit about how they both |
| 23 | Can you tell me a bit about how it 's changed and whether it is a good thing for Oxford Cheetahs . |
| 24 | Once you have made a decision about where you can site a garage , you have to think about whether to buy a kit garage , or build one from scratch . |
| 25 | You and your GP will be involved in making the decision about where you go for treatment . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |
| 27 | We also have to take responsibility for how we feel about ourselves and our actions . |
| 28 | At college , the responsibility for how you use your time is handed back to you . |
| 29 | Even Fergie got a mention in a spurious gag about how he and the Royal got together . |
| 30 | The main attempt to tackle the issue of bombing , the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare , is an admirable and detailed interpretation of customary rules and general principles of the laws of war , but it was never adopted by states in legally binding form — partly because of the belief , widely held in the aftermath of the First World War that the important thing was to prevent war altogether , rather than to devise rules for how it might be conducted . |