Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 2 | ‘ So I compromised by redesigning the base as a set of flat plates with circular holes cut in them through which sets of moulded hemispheres could be pushed . |
| 3 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 4 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 5 | Political uncertainties in the Soviet Union and South Africa , which between them accounted for 55 per cent of the world 's gold supplies , helped bring the price of gold in February 1990 to $425 an ounce . |
| 6 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) which between them accounted for 85 per cent of international arms exports , agreed at a meeting in Paris on July 8-9 to establish a weapons-free zone in the Middle East and to endorse an international arms register [ see also p. 38321 ] . |
| 7 | In addition , local employment is created and this promotes goodwill towards the company , which in itself assists in developing markets further . |
| 8 | As in The German Ideology , we seem to start with a similar early evolutionary stage which is roughly described as ‘ tribal ’ and which in itself divided into three . |
| 9 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 10 | None of them go beyond nineteen ninety six ? |
| 11 | What 's more , almost none of them work by binary notation — the normal method for computers — because that 's just yes/no stuff . |
| 12 | None of them knows for sure if the controlling shareholder , the French government , will keep him on or , in the Gallic equivalent of the kick upstairs , say thank-you and raise him a grade in the Legion d'Honneur . |
| 13 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 14 | None of us knew for certain who the informer was . |
| 15 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 16 | and she to she took about three minutes before she opened her eyes and came round . |
| 17 | He 's having you on you know about that |
| 18 | Niall muttered something about your going into general practice . ’ |
| 19 | He looked at home in this wilderness , and the newborn something inside her responded to that male strength . |
| 20 | But where else , she would have argued , was there for her to go in this dreary East Anglian village on a dull November evening ? |
| 21 | She treated herself with what seemed like utter severity . |
| 22 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 23 | His own ecclesiastical authority as an archbishop and metropolitan , though a reflection of papal authority at one level , was too important to him in itself to allow of such a thing . |
| 24 | Equally , how easy is it for you to conceive of another subject of experience , one who is not you ? |
| 25 | ‘ If you think a Rottweiler is going to attack you , it 's no good staring at it like you do with other dogs . |
| 26 | You do n't have to get inside it and keep adjusting and adjusting it like you do with some others . |
| 27 | That a mere colonel in the White House would have taken it upon himself to engage in such duplicitous and totally illegal operations without the president 's knowledge and authority is quite impossible to believe . |
| 28 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 29 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 30 | I was as appalled as anyone at what happened in recent weeks . |