Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 2 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 3 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 4 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 5 | His third cricket book , on the Australians of 1948 , with whom he is imperishably associated , was ‘ To my father , who knows nothing about cricket and cares less , but who was very good to me . ’ |
| 6 | Robert knew nothing about horses and cared less , unfortunately . |
| 7 | Miss Giles said she knew nothing about copyright and admitted : ‘ I could have checked and I should have checked . ’ |
| 8 | The legislation said nothing about effectiveness and did not define the term efficiency , thereby providing a source of some confusion and debate ( Glynn , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | I was involved in setting up a charity called SNIP which is a Special Needs Information Point for parents and carers of children with special needs to get more information out to them about benefits or help in any way . |
| 10 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 11 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 12 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 13 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 14 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 15 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 16 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 17 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 18 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 19 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 20 | His right shoulder crashes forward as he spins , to jolt me off balance and let him come in close . |
| 21 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 22 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 23 | He met me after school and accompanied me to the newly opened branch of Smith 's in Churchill Square . |
| 24 | The presence of a principal supporter was invaluable to help keep someone off abuse and receiving treatment ( Bradford Brown and Chiang , 1983–4 ) . |
| 25 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 26 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |
| 27 | You feel like a climber who unties the rope when he finds it irksome and , because of your carelessness , someone behind slips and falls to his death . ’ |
| 28 | The Enemy is upon us and we have no time to organise ourselves into battalions and ordered companies . |
| 29 | Carol became involved with the group because she knew someone with Leukaemia and wanted to help . |
| 30 | The only thing that will make them change their attitudes will be knowing someone with AIDS and watching them decline . |