Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
2 | ‘ Of course they are , but that bas nothing to do with it . |
3 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
4 | Most people could recite its slogan , ‘ Every seven minutes someone passes with BSM ’ ( now in fact it is more like every six minutes ) . |
5 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
6 | As an in-house lawyer , my ‘ clients ’ are the company personnel I deal with regularly . |
7 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
8 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
9 | Such reasons I dubbed above ‘ dependent reasons ’ . |
10 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
11 | For these reasons I submit to your Lordships that the remittances are income subject to income tax . |
12 | A personal example : my rugby loyalty lies with Hawick , but for career reasons I live in Edinburgh , and I rarely have the opportunity to attend home games , so club membership is n't really worth considering . |
13 | the reasons I think for doing it . |
14 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
15 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
16 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
17 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
18 | Several schools coaches I spoke to pointed out that , by the end of the season of the new law , most of the boys had worked out ways and means of blocking the ball . |
19 | The two , the two insurance policies I had of erm er the house were on |
20 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
21 | We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow . |
22 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
23 | Finally , under English cases I refer to Lord Wright 's statement in Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd. [ 1943 ] A.C. 32 , 61 : |
24 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
25 | There are many other activities I do at school . |
26 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
27 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
28 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
29 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
30 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |