Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or something what about the amount of care they would get from a farrier , those horses ? |
| 2 | And if a journalist able to do you any kind of legitimate favour he or she will certainly feel that you owe him or her one in return ; this debt may be called in when you are least able to be informative . |
| 3 | In short compass , it was held that someone who by reference to purely biological criteria is undoubtedly of the male sex at birth remains a male , notwithstanding a diagnosis of transsexualism , medical and surgical intervention to alter external sexual characteristics , and adoption of a female role or gender identity . |
| 4 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 5 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 6 | It 's an unfortunate aspect of human nature that we none of us , myself included , appreciate anybody fully until they 've gone . |
| 7 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 8 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 9 | In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp . |
| 10 | Dream away , dream away , let's hope your prediction is more accurate than your one on Saturday was which really was not too close was it ? |
| 11 | In consequence , the social scientists have much to say about teenagers becoming prostitutes , football hooligans , drug-addicts and jobless ; they have little to say about young people seeking middle-class respectability and nothing whatsoever about heirs to dukedoms or oil fortunes . |
| 12 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 13 | One Sikh woman in Southall told me ‘ My husband likes me to use make-up and I myself like it too . |
| 14 | To think that you are and will be mine and I yours through the mercies of God when this transitory life is past and gone , for all eternity ! |
| 15 | Oh that 's shame cos I what about , I mean I was thinking of erm , John sa , John , you know Andrew 's brother ? |
| 16 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 17 | To adhere to the ( 1855 ) treaty that has been made , and which we on our side have kept … you have broken the treaty not we … that engagement was made with us for 20 years … |
| 18 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 19 | Finally , there is another aim which relates to both Sections A and B , and which none of the models has taken seriously enough : 7. help pupils to learn how to cope with controversy , complexity , confusion , and uncertainty within a safe environment , so that they are able to manage these unavoidable aspects of life without trying to resort to premature certainty , dogmatism or exclusivism . |
| 20 | The Party 's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people 's lives , leaving them little room for manoeuvre and none whatsoever for criticism of the regime . |
| 21 | There are four interviews and reported comments with supporters of the latter and none whatsoever for the former . |
| 22 | And we one before |
| 23 | One one between Peterborough and Blackpool and one one between Shrewsbury and Blackburn in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 24 | This distinction appears potentially important and one which in turn generates other questions . |
| 25 | An attempt to answer this question , and one which in the opinion of S. G. F. Brandon shows some consciousness of the significance of the factor of time , was made by a late Zoroastrian priest renowned for his orthodoxy . |
| 26 | We had tourist visitors of every age and family , and some quaint scenes were witnessed on the upgoing — many of the native children ( and one who in a few years after might be called an old man ) found it a profitable , and I doubt not , too , a pleasurable work , leading the tourists to the top . |
| 27 | That letter almost sounds like we us around this table are expected to choose some of the sites . |
| 28 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 29 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |
| 30 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |