Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 2 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 3 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 4 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 5 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 6 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 7 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 9 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 10 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 11 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 12 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 14 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 15 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 16 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 17 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 18 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 19 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 20 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 21 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 22 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 23 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 24 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 25 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 26 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 27 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |
| 28 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 30 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |