Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 2 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 3 | Tom Fearon keeps him for me at the livery stables . |
| 4 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 5 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 6 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 7 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 8 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 9 | At present the Survey files in Edinburgh contain the details of over 100 000 boreholes sunk in Scotland , the majority of them in the coalfield areas . |
| 10 | Oliver spent all of his on the plastic ducks and collected ten prizes . |
| 11 | Well I mean , well that 's it , you know selection of everything like the starch foods |
| 12 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 13 | Yours sincerely , ( Prof. ) Richard von Krafft-Ebing girl is obviously fairly intelligent , and so will find it hard to find a man worthy of her among the servant classes ; and how will she meet anyone else ? |
| 14 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 15 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 16 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 17 | In drawing up his list of inhabitants of Corfe Castle in 1794 , the compiler justified his efforts by claiming that it would not only help the overseers keep in touch with actual and potential needs , but would " enable the magistrates to form an opinion on the propriety of applications for parochial relief on the one hand , and of the refusal of it by the parish officers on the other " . |
| 18 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 19 | And I was absolutely amazed and I think all of us on the opposition benches were absolutely amazed at the city board that you appeared to have no proposals whatsoever to do anything about that situation . |
| 20 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 21 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 22 | He trailed along behind her through the sand dunes , along the edge of the tidal salt marsh . |
| 23 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 24 | For some reason , William sought to get rid of Adelizia and he began a case against her in the church courts which ended in a declaration by Pope Innocent II that his first contractual marriage was binding . |
| 25 | They insist that insecticide resistance , due in the main to their agricultural usage , is the principal cause of failures to reduce malaria transmission by an attack with them on the mosquito vectors . |
| 26 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 27 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 28 | he did a very good job , with plenty of the man-management skills which are not Martin Crowe 's forte . |
| 29 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 30 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |