Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't all that proud of meself one way and another , but there 's no cause for you to tell me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You know , they remind me of myself thirty years ago when I was a student activist at Oxford , ’ enthused Horsley . |
| 3 | During lunch the Rentokil managers were heartened by the fact that in such a short space of time the seminar had paid for itself four times over by the amount of business gained . |
| 4 | If Britain could be described in any useful way as a society at ease with itself twenty years ago , then that was certainly not how it felt at the time . |
| 5 | But if she is cleansed of her discharge , she shall count for herself seven days , and after that she shall be clean . |
| 6 | Ptah embodied within himself eight other Ptah 's , who had the names of other gods , amongst which Atum was his thought , Horus his heart and Thoth his tongue . |
| 7 | This continuous evaluation , which is in itself one of the cornerstones of any Total Quality System , is continuing by means for further routine seminars . |
| 8 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 9 | The book describes it thus : ‘ A good road as far as Whitfield Inn , but Staward Bank doubles back on itself three times and makes some dangerously sharp turns . |
| 10 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 11 | And that , believe me , as you will find out for yourself one day , is a rarer thing than being respectable ’ . |
| 12 | If you have never experienced this , try it out for yourself one day when your mind is calm and you are not with companions who will ridicule you or otherwise disturb your peace of mind . |
| 13 | ‘ It is greener and cooler and a thousand times more beautiful and you will see it all for yourself one day , ’ he told her , gathering her into his arms and teasing her lips with his own . |
| 14 | Now it does n't mean anything now in terms of multiply sixteen by itself three quarters times That 's gone . |
| 15 | The chance of it getting the entire phrase of 28 characters right is ( 1/27 ) to the power 28 , i.e. ( 1/27 ) multiplied by itself 28 times . |