Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 2 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 3 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 4 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 5 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 6 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 7 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 8 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 9 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 10 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 11 | I eat tremendous amounts of bread and jam and bowls of cornflakes with cold milk — delicious ! |
| 12 | Then using white butter icing I make two sets of icing , say pink and white , and cover half the cakes with a layer of white and half with a layer of pink , decorate some with chocolate strands and some with hundreds and thousands ( sprinkleys ) . |
| 13 | As to the first question I make these findings of fact . |
| 14 | I got two pints of beer . |
| 15 | I got two sets of photos back yesterday . |
| 16 | I got two bottles of Scotch and I hid one down by the dishwasher . ’ |
| 17 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
| 18 | On behalf of MPL , I refute any charges of corruption . ’ |
| 19 | Further to our discussion at DBM I attach initial costs of Standards Documents . |
| 20 | Do I need different types of pots ? |
| 21 | And I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that and I did n't know what I shou . |
| 22 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 23 | ‘ I found two tubes of toothpaste in the girl 's bag , and one tube in the young man 's bag . |
| 24 | I found all sorts of reasons for it , like not being there when my father died . |
| 25 | When I opened it I found neat bundles of fivers , each one with a Bank of Berlin band around it . |
| 26 | I want six pairs of feet and then I 'd have to stand on my head to give them a rest ’ . |
| 27 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 28 | I identified three kinds of structures : sequential , interactional and psychological . |
| 29 | I learnt all sorts of facts that were entirely new to me . |
| 30 | I mean it 's a lovely insight into where they 're coming from , who they are , what their priorities are , and I welcome those kinds of comments , because at least then it 's out into the open . |