Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage .
2 In 1983 a questionnaire given out by the Tourist Office asked visitors what pleased them most about Madeira : 35.7 per cent of those questioned said the natural beauty of the island , 13.6 per cent the friendliness of the residents , 12.4 per cent the climate , 8.4 per cent good hotels and 7.8 per cent the flowers .
3 Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste .
4 Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself .
5 But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account .
6 This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects .
7 Charlton 's win keeps them right in contention .
8 Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps .
9 MIKE SLEMEN last night vowed to bring the Springbok celebrations to a halt when the North take them on at Elland Road , Leeds tonight .
10 WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer .
11 Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length .
12 I sent them on with Kadan .
13 All the clothes are chosen carefully , so that you can get them on without discomfort to the patient .
14 She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats .
15 As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale .
16 But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’
17 In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size .
18 Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool .
19 That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick .
20 He was accused at his trial in 1990 of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances ( activities carried out by Tibetans in 1988 in support of independence ) and passed them on to others , thus violating the ( laws of ) secrecy ’ .
21 He was accused of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances and passed them on to others , thus undermining the law and violating the ( laws of ) secrecy . ’
22 Perfect pads : save the shoulder pads from your old blouses and dresses and glue them on to coathangers so that newer , delicate clothes do n't tear .
23 The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common .
24 No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match .
25 We 'd dress up in our party things ; just put a little pinny on to start ; unpack the things from Fortnum 's , put them on to plates .
26 STB anticipates moving both the hardware and software through distributors and master resellers who will integrate them before moving them on to resellers .
27 Sparc Technology anticipates moving both the hardware and software through distributors and master resellers who will integrate them before moving them on to resellers .
28 A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg .
29 He was interested to see Ray 's collection , presented to Samuel Dale just before he died , who later passed them on to Chelsea .
30 They cut the petticoats into six pieces and put them on to sticks .
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