Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 2 | Just look at some of the thought-provoking policies I have introduced this season . |
| 3 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 4 | I like football and I find all the other views I 've heard all a bit negative ! |
| 5 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 6 | . You know what I do n't know how many times I 've stripped that down . |
| 7 | Blimey , the times I 've heard that ! |
| 8 | So I 've got a two there I 'll put a tick on that so I 've got two times I 've got another two so I always put my smallest ones on the left so I can find them quickly . |
| 9 | The times I have lost all the stitches and the times I 've had the wrong rows one side of the neck ! |
| 10 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 11 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 12 | When I revived , Wart-Face ( who introduced himself as Jean Capote ) and his companion Claude Broussac , rat-faced with a pointed nose , greasy hair and the cheekiest eyes I have seen this side of Hell , were bending over me , forcing a cup of scalding posset between my lips . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 14 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 16 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 17 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 18 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 19 | Formula funding , explained later in the chapter as the cornerstone of the new arrangements for resource distribution to schools , represents a way of rewarding schools which have attracted such consumers . |
| 20 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 21 | We owe it to the fans who have made all this possible . ’ |
| 22 | I feel sorry for the fans who have travelled all this way to see that . ’ |
| 23 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 24 | I would be grateful if any of your readers who have walked all or part of the Staffordshire Way could write to me . |
| 25 | As readers who have pursued this work from its outset will be aware , our argument is that one of the persistent strengths of pluralism is its capacity to produce consistent and detailed descriptions of particular aspects of reality . |
| 26 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |
| 27 | The remaining 69 seats were allocated according to votes cast for the national lists of the 27 parties who had collected enough signatures to be eligible . |
| 28 | This is closely parallel to what has happened in respect of the serial order of classes of prenominal adjectives , categorized according to their pragmatic domain , thoroughly described by Martin ( 1969 ) or Warren ( 1984 ) , to cite two of the many authors who have studied this topic . |
| 29 | Several manufacturers who have equipped all their new cars with converters for some time also disapprove of the relaxation . |
| 30 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |