Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Cos they do n't have any notes or anything do they ?
2 In Bali , amongst the community of wise and loving farmer artists where we have our home , such a stunt would be as unbelievable as it would be unnecessary , for when it comes to the supernatural — or human trickery , for that matter — the Balinese are old hands .
3 Then there is the 39-member-strong Royal Society of Portrait Paints which operates from the Mall Galleries where it holds its annual exhibition .
4 The user is then free to choose the environment which best matches their use characteristics or which improves their aggregate efficiency measured in time , error or quality terms .
5 He said : ‘ You see Hunter-Blair at parties or he rings you up when he wants his name in your column . ’
6 ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’
7 How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ?
8 Skinnergate faces two choices : it either declines into a traffic-filled street of second-rate shops or it cleans itself up , providing an open air alternative to the Cornmill 's enclosed space .
9 When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast .
10 I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right .
11 I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order .
12 The truth is that most of us eat ( and drink ) more calories than we think we are eating ( and drinking ) in the course of a day .
13 Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her .
14 Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it .
15 Michael could see by the look in his eyes that he knew who had ordered his accident .
16 Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities .
17 According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency .
18 One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party .
19 About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours .
20 It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur .
21 And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths .
22 One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market .
23 It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball .
24 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health .
25 It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report .
26 Label all gatevalves so you know which is which in an emergency .
27 There are two other books that I co-authored which cover this aspect .
28 As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness .
29 I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it .
30 ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help .
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