Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized the importance of kinship systems for the Indians and how for them most social relationships were seen in terms of who was the child of whom and who was married to whom . |
| 2 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 3 | Charred-edged holes appeared in their skin , while behind them little dry chunks of flesh fell into the powdery dust that covered the ground . |
| 4 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 5 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 6 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 7 | Books are me most prized possessions , ye ken . |
| 8 | Father Andrew , the saintly co-founder of the Society of the Divine Compassion , wrote to one of his many correspondents : ‘ To me it is one of me most hopeful things of this epoch that it has produced C. S. Lewis . ’ |
| 9 | " Will you pose for me properly some time ? " |
| 10 | Young argues that ‘ When ambition is crossed with stupidity it may do nothing besides foster frustration ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 12 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 13 | Jack had seen them all many times . |
| 14 | THERE have been lucky winners of the Grand National but , of them all 100–1 chance Foinavon must rank supreme — and may also have been indirectly responsible for saving the race . |
| 15 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 16 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 17 | James brought them all more drinks . |
| 18 | I would n't worry Bruce , it seems to me Stiff Little Fingers are virtually indestructible . |
| 19 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 20 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 22 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |
| 23 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 24 | They had twelve children , of whom only six daughters and one son survived infancy . |
| 25 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 26 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 27 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 28 | The form of your letter to a tenant ( left undated until completion ) could be : re Blackacre The above property has today been sold by our client , Mr Jones , to Mr John Smith of Whiteacre , to whom all future payments of rent should be made . |
| 29 | These data , as presented , are difficult to interpret because ( i ) fewer crypt intraepithelial lymphocytes than surface intraepithelial lymphocytes ( per 100 enterocyte nuclei ) were found ; ( ii ) no detectable response to gluten/gliadin challenge , contrary to other findings , was observed ; and ( iii ) data were analysed and presented in terms of total specimens counted rather than numbers of patients from whom all such specimens derived . |
| 30 | The ensuing problems for a reforming commissioner begin at the top , with the Scotland Yard policy committee — the deputy , assistant and deputy assistant commissioners , by whom all major changes have , effectively , to be ratified . |