Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun continues to say it will use the chip but it 's kind of hard for them to say where definitively until there 's working silicon . |
| 2 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |
| 3 | Then her wish was granted as his head blotted out the sun , and Robbie emitted a little ecstatic noise as the space between them melted away entirely and they lay body pressed to body , mouth to mouth , his hands moulding her to him with a sudden , startling ferocity . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's plenty of room up here for me to stay quite comfortably and there ought to be someone on hand to milk the cows , however bad the weather . ’ |
| 5 | In fact some of them kill even better than they die . |
| 6 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 7 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 8 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 9 | No if you if you buy a different make of , some of them stick out further and they foul it . |
| 10 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 11 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 12 | This led to an enormous diversity of plants , none of them doing particularly well and none taken out by trees . |
| 13 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ The other mums are always talking about what their children eat and most of them seem as just as confused as I am . ’ |
| 15 | Sandy pulled her dress back up over her shoulders , just in case , and the two of them sat as still as they could and listened . |
| 16 | Each of them knows perfectly well that the strength of her position in the home lies in the physical dependence of her husband and children upon her and she is suspicious of anything that would tend to undermine this . |
| 17 | In their opinion , from the little they had seen and heard , one of them spoke too little and the other too much . |
| 18 | Considering each member of the series of Xs connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them worked sufficiently well that it assisted the survival and reproduction of the animals concerned ? |
| 19 | Considering each member of the series of Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them worked sufficiently well that it assisted the survival and reproduction of the animals concerned ? |
| 20 | I hated it , and Dr Kelleher got some of them taken down so that I could at least see the daylight . |
| 21 | Many of them struggle on bravely and still manage to take a limited amount of daily exercise , but sometimes a point is reached when they are no longer able to go out alone at all to enjoy any kind of social life . |
| 22 | That 's alright I hope , if you can cope with that but , if , if I would be a just a little bit upset if all thirteen of you went off together or eleven of you . |
| 23 | ‘ I can understand it , even if I do n't like to think of her moving far away unless I get a personal recommendation about whoever takes her on . ’ |
| 24 | He began to play , conscious now of the boy watching , of him edging slowly closer as the stones were laid , the board filled up again . |
| 25 | Most important of all , its language , now more and more generally accepted as the ultimate badge of nationality , must be supported and a knowledge of it spread as widely as possible . |
| 26 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |
| 27 | Lots of us understand very well that many revolutions died because their leaders could not forget how good they were at destruction . |
| 28 | You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along . |
| 29 | With increasing confidence , you should reach the point where the model can be kept in the air for lengthy periods with it moving slowly forwards and you following it . |
| 30 | Pride in her soared up then and she turned her back on the phone . |