Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are for them nearer to home . |
| 2 | The trees seemed taller and closer together ; the spaces between them darker and more forbidding . |
| 3 | It was all very disturbing , and Angela quite dreaded being seen by Bully and wished very much that he did n't live anywhere near her , or that his owner , Mr. Black , looked after him better and trained him . |
| 4 | Managers of the 87 Debenhams stores said business was ‘ phenomenal ’ with all of them busier than last year . |
| 5 | As regards to the non-payment , we are , fifty four pounds goes on in , forty three pounds goes on in , thirty seven pounds goes on in and , all of them greater than that which we have put on simply in order to recollect the poll tax . |
| 6 | The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’ |
| 7 | It depends , some of them bigger Vauxhalls see they do n't hold their money . |
| 8 | Were the other senior nursing staff like her in their attitudes to prim primness and correctness or were some of them laxer than that ? |
| 9 | There are philosophers , some of them inclined to Kant 's doctrine that we impose the category of causation on reality , some of them freer spirits , who think or at any rate say differently of causation and of nomic connection generally-in a phrase , that it is part of the mental order . |
| 10 | There 's six of them older than him , and his mother . |
| 11 | , John , second Baron Revelstoke ( 1863–1929 ) , merchant banker , was born 7 September 1863 in Kingston upon Thames , the eldest in the family of five sons and three daughters ( another two sons , one of them older than John , died in infancy ) of Edward Charles Baring , later first Baron Revelstoke , of London and Membland , Devon , and his wife , Louisa Emily Charlotte , daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Lyneham , Devon . |
| 12 | They were in a sailing boat , as far out as the trawler , both of them older , eighteen or nineteen . |
| 13 | The Labour Party was a federation of autonomous organizations , all of them older than the party itself . |
| 14 | The former GP , of Stocksfield , Northumberland , spent 28 years ferrying lunches to the elderly — most of them younger than him . |
| 15 | In addition , about 300,000 eastern German workers were commuting to jobs in western Germany , and 108,000 had emigrated to western Germany in the first five months of 1991 — most of them younger , skilled workers [ see also pp. 37761 ; 38109 ; 38354 ] . |
| 16 | And some of you younger boys may have discovered that some of the older boys have become attached to you . |
| 17 | Many of you younger boys , I know , were inspired into military life by his example . |
| 18 | They spoke of him later rather generously . |
| 19 | It seemed to flow out of him easier than anybody else that I 've heard , except maybe Beethoven . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got a conscience about all this lot , all of 'em younger than our Gerry . |
| 21 | Yeah , well you 're going to do the base of it bigger are n't you ? |
| 22 | She has , she feels , passed through the narcissistic clubber/good time girl phase and come out of it stronger , more resilient , but also more tolerant . |
| 23 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 24 | Get rid of it quicker mulches down |
| 25 | Some of us younger males unable to play much during the week have similar views on this topic , but that 's another story . |
| 26 | It would seem , therefore , that the debtor will have to pay the debt , the subject of the demand , if he wishes to avoid a bankruptcy petition being issued against him later and in other proceedings . |
| 27 | I would have caught up with you earlier but I saw you talking to that poor downtrodden mouse of a Haynes woman and waited till she 'd gone . |
| 28 | She clung to him , their mouths drinking hectically from one another , their harsh breathing mingled ; moved with him , her slim legs clamped round his waist , climbed with him higher and higher into some fierce and unimagined realm of pleasure . |
| 29 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 30 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |