Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 2 | The effect of having a baby had also put some of them off sex altogether for a while , which is something that also happens to older mothers . |
| 3 | Whether we 'll have to take them off Thursday now , put them forward to Wednesday . |
| 4 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 5 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 6 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 7 | Can you please complete and initial clause two , sign the documents and return them to me for signature here . |
| 8 | So my father got a secondhand clockwork train , repaired it with a soldering iron , and gave it to me for Christmas when I was nearly three . |
| 9 | I used one of your tapes you brought me for Christmas yesterday , very nice ! |
| 10 | ‘ Why do n't you come and join me for dinner tomorrow evening , and I 'll tell you then . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose you would n't care to join me for dinner tonight ? ’ |
| 12 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 13 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 14 | They do n't think of them as places where research goes on . |
| 15 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 16 | Er Use them as pizzas maybe ? |
| 17 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |
| 18 | I mean , erm , I know my youth officer in my area takes them as individuals where the , they are youngsters who perhaps would benefit from that . |
| 19 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 20 | Erm I do n't know I have n't been to them for ages now |
| 21 | The facts are as I reported them for FARMERS WEEKLY on Apr 27 , 1990 . |
| 22 | If you take made-up bottles , check them for leakage beforehand . |
| 23 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 24 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 25 | Similarly , those who hoped that the more flexible regulations would qualify them for grant well in excess of the traditional 75% were doomed to disappointment . |
| 26 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 27 | More and more horses are falling prey to rustlers who often sell them for slaughter abroad . |
| 28 | Look , they had them for women too ! |
| 29 | This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics . |
| 30 | Mark Williams and John Austin from Pest Control Oxford have a competition running between them for sales up until the year end . |