Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing this we panicked , and high tailed it out the back of the graveyard ; cursing and falling over each other all the way . |
| 2 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 3 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 4 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 5 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 6 | The people have spoken , and though not with unanimous voice , in large enough numbers to make the message clear : the bolters need controlling if our crags are not to become clinical , sporting playgrounds where all you 'll need is a rack of quick-draws and a chalk bag . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you remember the Polanski movie Repulsion , where all you see of the city is a tiny little street outside Catherine Deneuve 's flat ? |
| 8 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
| 9 | Analogous situations in our everyday lives are too obvious to require further comment , other than that they , too , have dramatic potential . |
| 10 | Leaving aside for the moment the special interest groups which might be more amenable to user education programmes , let us look at work with adults with no allegiance to the public library other than that they are committed users of the service . |
| 11 | What Hill had found was that children would claim to have seen video-nasties , rather than that they had actually seen them . |
| 12 | Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential . |
| 13 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 14 | Other than that they spend their money too quick . |
| 15 | These weapons were apparently unremarkable other than that they were old and battered and the letters ‘ NB ’ were engraved in gold on the barrels . |
| 16 | Perhaps the artists in this exhibition and book are united by only one thing other than that they have made use of some aspect of photographic technology : most of them are more likely than not to be familiar with the ideas of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard . |
| 17 | And has n't Wittgenstein shown us anyway that a concept can be perfectly healthy without being definable , arguing that there need be no element common to all instances of a property ( e.g. instances of knowledge ) other than that they are instances ( e.g. that they are knowledge ) ? |
| 18 | When things go wrong we tend to assume that the police have offended , rather than that they were defeated by real cognitive problems . |
| 19 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 20 | Personality disorders are conditions where the individual 's whole personality appears to be permanently warped rather than that they are suffering from some actual illness at any given time . |
| 21 | Other than that they loved it . |
| 22 | But other than that they were identical . |
| 23 | The contract itself recognises usages as well as rules and it seems more likely to me that the rules may , in some cases at any rate , have developed out of and given partial expression to usages rather than that they should indicate the absence of usages beyond what is contained in the rule . " |
| 24 | They begin to feel that the job is there so that they can earn a living , rather than that they are doing the job itself ! |
| 25 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 26 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 27 | ‘ Not a thing , other than that you 'd expressed a wish to go there , and I wanted to see you . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , I thought it was longer than that you know . |
| 29 | Other than that you 'd get rid of that one again , but you would n't have move would you ? |
| 30 | Other other than that you can not guarantee planning permission . |