Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 2 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 3 | Was that when we did it , cos I did that with you did n't I in the afternoon , or I did some with somebody |
| 4 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Retired tennis champion Chris Evert also has a home at the Polo Club , where she spends most of the year . |
| 6 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 7 | He or she attempts this by |
| 8 | Since large establishments are more likely to have at least one temporary worker than small establishments ( i.e. to be " users " ) , we broke down our results according to establishment size where we thought this to be relevant . |
| 9 | There was a bar with no booze and a store , of sorts , where we bought some of almost every item we recognized , including carrots , processed cheese and chocolate , which tasted like cocoa-flavoured sugar . |
| 10 | They gave a 21-gun salute , played hymns and went on board a coastal yacht , where they spent most of the day alternately at anchor or sailing . |
| 11 | When a pupil leaves , with him or her goes some of that added value and its potential which the school has sought to generate . |
| 12 | Having tried unsuccessfully to reach him through his office — he edits a weekly newspaper for veterans of the wartime resistance — I decided finally to drive out to the village of Roztoky where he spends much of his time . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 14 | He felt surprised by his own honesty in dropping the requested payment into the box and could not quite fathom his motive in lodging the card in the same envelope in his pocket where he kept those of Aphrodite and Silenus . |
| 15 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 16 | This suggests that the police are most likely to interpret an event as rape where it shares some of the characteristics of familiar and conspicuously criminal activity . |
| 17 | For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort . |
| 18 | It makes me want to puke , except I did enough of that last Saturday night ! |
| 19 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |
| 20 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 21 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 22 | I began to feel he was mine , that I knew all about him . |
| 23 | It was years later that I knew all about it . |
| 24 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 25 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 26 | Roza had insisted that I sample some of the frivolities of Paris . |
| 27 | Not that I regret any of it , you understand , but it 's not an enviable state being someone 's mistress . |
| 28 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 29 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 30 | It is with shame that I write this to you who so well prophesied what has come to pass " . |