Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 2 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 3 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 4 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 5 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 6 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 7 | Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble . |
| 8 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 9 | Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 . |
| 10 | I would suggest that you build in a few nice easy open questions at the beginning of the session . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 12 | When you ask for some information from hard disk , the coaching controller grabs more information than you need from the same area of the disk . |
| 13 | Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago . |
| 14 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
| 15 | That we grip through the many senses , and striped wasps |
| 16 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 17 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 18 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 19 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 20 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 21 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 22 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 25 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 26 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 27 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 28 | He says safety is paramount you have to make sure the balloons are at the same temperatures and that they keep at the same height . |
| 29 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 30 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |