Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 2 | I shuffle my feet against the bark shavings . |
| 3 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 4 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 5 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 6 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 7 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 8 | I drowned my sorrows on the school goalposts , as football was banned . |
| 9 | Er and you actually acknowledged my comments about the hairpin bends and the crossroads . |
| 10 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't get my hands on the inquest papers until the end of the week . |
| 12 | Clearly in both the provision of resources and also their views on the way services can and should move . |
| 13 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 14 | A final declaration adopted on Nov. 23 called on the SAARC to extend its activities in the core areas of economic co-operation , biotechnology , environmental issues and tourism . |
| 15 | Political power was signified to the inhabitants of a burgh by the ability of a dominant faction to place its friends in the local revenue offices , and equally , by their ability to obtain the removal of their enemies among the office holders . |
| 16 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 17 | He used three of them for Tessa , the legs of one pair tying her ankles to the chair legs , her hands pulled behind and tied together with the second pair . |
| 18 | It also surveyed 35 financial directors from the UK 's top 1,000 companies on their reactions to the Budget measures . |
| 19 | ‘ But my ancestors stopped dumping the bodies of its enemies in the lagoon years ago . |
| 20 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 21 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 22 | It was then that the city pastors began asking their brethren in the mountain villages to organise sanctuary for the refugees . |
| 23 | Legal and General Property have been presented their plans to the City Lands Policy Group and traders at the centre . |
| 24 | Michael Fallon ( Con ) and Peter Bergg ( Lib Dem ) yesterday met the young men who will be arguing their policies at the school hustings . |
| 25 | Honeybees show a remarkable ability to synchronise their activities with the opening times of flowers . |
| 26 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 27 | Lexington society were present and the newspapers had been busy taking photographs and writing up their accounts for the morning editions . |
| 28 | Your shiny skin is caused by oil which surfaces via the hair follicles or shafts ( otherwise known as the skin 's pores ) , into which the sebaceous glands secrete sebum . |
| 29 | In this case their attitudes to the learning tasks in which teachers attempt to engage them , particularly work with computers , are the objects of inquiry . |
| 30 | In that case , their opponents in the Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-finals , Partizan Belgrade , would receive a bye into the last four . |