Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , right from the beginning when we talk to citizens about using their friends of the theatre I nearly fell about you know |
| 2 | He was also responsible for instructing his pupils in the History of the English Language and in philology ( the growth , history and structure of words ) . |
| 3 | There is a lot of humorous reminiscing by the veterans about previous pilgrimages , about blisters , about the student who was cautioned for cooling his feet in a public reservoir , about the crippling last mile of the pilgrimage which , apparently ( who says we 're not living in the Middle Ages ? ) , we walk barefoot . |
| 4 | After completing your priorities to the satisfaction of your boss , discuss in depth the list of tasks that arrived through management by inertia , but do n't use that phrase ! |
| 5 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 6 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |
| 7 | The male has highly absorbent belly feathers which enable him to store water after immersing his underparts in a water hole . |
| 8 | FOUR car salesmen are claiming sexual discrimination after losing their jobs in a takeover by a company that boasted of its success in using saleswomen . |
| 9 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 10 | ‘ Acid ! ’ he cried after consulting his notes for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time . |
| 11 | After playing their parts in a fruitless search of the Butcher Building , Dee and Kelley were now dining out at the Drowning Handbag , an up-market eatery in the best part of town . |
| 12 | After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again . |
| 13 | Agnes now went into the back room and , after washing her hands in a bowl of water that stood on a bench , she dried them , then smoothed her hair back and adjusted the bow at the neck of her dress . |
| 14 | The £250,000 trip barely rose above the bergschrund on the unclimbed face , and failed again after transferring its attentions to the ‘ normal route ’ , the north west ridge . |
| 15 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 16 | FORMER world champion Alain Prost was cleared of bringing motor racing into disrepute yesterday , after offering his apologies to the International Motor Sports Federation ( FISA ) in Paris . |
| 17 | No more talk about scattering her ashes over the Mediterranean by moonlight . |
| 18 | Does he accept that there has been a cut in the TEC 's budgets and that many are expressing concern about meeting his guarantees as a result ? |
| 19 | Introducing subscripts 1 and 2 for denoting our quantities in the two dielectrics , we may write |
| 20 | Larry Cummins said , ‘ I have no unpleasant feelings about remembering my experiences during the war . |
| 21 | The aim of the study is to help a large civil engineering consultancy firm determine their longer term strategy for training their technicians in the use of computers as an aid to design . |
| 22 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 23 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 24 | From the point of view of the copyright libraries including ourselves , the case of the Ordnance Survey is also related to the thorny question of maintaining our collections in an era when digital publication is beginning to replace the printed page . |
| 25 | Most problematic for the courts have been the cases involving flats given by local authorities to persons in the course of pursuing their duties under the Housing Acts towards homeless persons . |
| 26 | Although it is clear that Gascoigne is way beyond his peers in what is an era of ordinary players , Taylor 's predecessors — Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson — all shunned the opportunity of building their teams around the most talented players at their disposal . |
| 27 | The animal research establishment would do well to get its own house in order instead of parading its failures before a public that still wants to believe in salvation through medical science . |
| 28 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 29 | If your child is self-conscious , she may be afraid of revealing her thoughts in an essay . |
| 30 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |