Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |
| 2 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 3 | Time and again the IBA proved itself a sucker to serious-sounding prospectuses , awarding franchise to London Weekend Television and the new breakfast television service , TVAM , only for them to turn out complete flops which later recouped their investment by lowering standards . |
| 4 | Alexandra wondered if there was a feature in it : successful younger women , the varied careers it was possible for them to take up these days , the chances they had to rise to the top in their chosen professions , whether or not those professions were less orthodox than the ones chosen by their male counterparts . |
| 5 | If they do not have such a grounding , it will be difficult for them to pursue more advanced studies subsequently , especially in ‘ vertebrate ’ subjects such as mathematics and science ; also , a merely partial or incomplete exposure to such forms of knowledge sells them short in terms of human thought , indeed of the very concept of mind . |
| 6 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 7 | Some jobs were too short-lived for them to build up sufficient contributions to acquire eligibility for unemployment benefit . |
| 8 | No because I , no , I well , it 's is , I know people who say well I 've heard very little and I know that 's enough for them to have very good friends . |
| 9 | In this case their prediction model mimics the behaviour of the correct model so closely that there is no incentive for them to seek out further information to refine their predictions . |
| 10 | Orbach ( 1978 ) , for instance , suggests that the solution to women 's eating problems is for them to develop more positive feelings about their physical , sexual , intellectual , and social selves . |
| 11 | Ewa airfield was attacked and defended by Taylor and Welch who between them shot down six aircraft . |
| 12 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 13 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 14 | The brewing industry currently consists of over 80 firms which between them own over 140 breweries . |
| 15 | Two Sustrans sculptures on the Edinburgh — Glasgow cycle route were ceremoniously ‘ unveiled ’ during the summer by veteran CTC members Ted Zoller and Walter Browne , who have between them clocked up 150 years of membership of the club . |
| 16 | I knew it was n't healthy or good for me to spend so many hours thinking about eating and cooking up plans for new diets or exercise programmes . |
| 17 | However , these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track . |
| 18 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 19 | Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India . |
| 20 | What 's the difference between I jotted down this morning . |
| 21 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 22 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 23 | And through all age groups for women ( 12–64 ) , two-thirds of them take very little exercise at all . |
| 24 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 25 | They sat on staircases to talk about poetry or politics , and many of them smoked long thin cigarettes rolled in dark brown paper and smelling of perfume . |
| 26 | There were first of all Tudor chroniclers of various kinds , many of them writing straight political propaganda . |
| 27 | If the imbecilic members of the family can find no useful occupation , and Church of England still refuses to have them , then we find most of them dressing up curious uniforms , indulging in unspecified sado masochistic rituals , salutin' and marchin' . |
| 28 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the grammar schools existing separately from secondary modern schools edgily defended their difference and their rights — even if one of them had only six pupils in the upper sixth . |
| 30 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |