Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each surfaces from its dive with what looks like a sand eel . |
| 2 | Did you phone that hairdressers for me ? |
| 3 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 4 | And erm some for my work , you know I have that herpes in my lap , it 's breaking out again . |
| 5 | Speich , for instance , was a genuine investigator with some coups behind him , and they had the scent of something hot now . |
| 6 | I realise that knitters with other makes of machine can not achieve this stitch , which , I suppose , is why one sees few patterns for it . |
| 7 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 8 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 9 | The furious dad packed his daughter and their few possessions into his 12-year-old Toyota Corona … and moved into the car park at council headquarters in Cromer , Norfolk . |
| 10 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 12 | So Ann Richards 's first act as governor was to call for the adoption of an emergency ethics law ‘ with some teeth in it . ’ |
| 13 | A few years later , between 1743 and 1747 , he carried out some improvements to his property , partly remodelling the modest Elizabethan house in the Gothic style and building a picturesque thatched cottage and an octagonal Gothic tower on the nearby escarpment of Edgehill ; and these works at once establish Miller as an important figure in the early history of the Gothic revival . |
| 14 | If you are thinking of making some improvements to your home and would like some more information on members in your area , write to : |
| 15 | Not only did they get a promise from the secretary of the men 's union that they would be paid full wages by the union if they came out on strike ( unusual , if not unprecedented for non-members ) but the agreement subsequently signed with Neill 's management included some improvements in their piece rates . |
| 16 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 17 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 18 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 19 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 20 | ( I suspect it 's his way of getting some vegetables down me considering the number of soft , plump leaves that end up in the bottom of my cup when the pot gets to be half full of the things . |
| 21 | It 's also got some vegetables in it . |
| 22 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 23 | Michael Banks , for the first time in the run , showed some signs of his real power as the Hooded Owl speech drew near . |
| 24 | There is no clear professional accountability when tragedies occur although there are some signs of it emerging . |
| 25 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 26 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 27 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
| 28 | Given his deep-rooted Salvation Army connections , it came as no surprise when the 18-year-old Eric Ball found himself employed ( not without some misgivings on his part ) in their Music Editorial Department . |
| 29 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 30 | a few houses on them . |