Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear .
2 Peter Davenport ( the owner/manager ) is respected by the staff , who consider him to be fair , and is on good terms with his guests , many of whom share his public school and service background .
3 In spite of so much time being given to singing , many children also learn at least one musical instrument and all of them play their full part in the varied life of the school .
4 With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children .
5 They both went into the Scout 's and the Rangers and Edie made each of them do their own bed , do their bedrooms on Saturday 's
6 The performance of Castlereagh must attract the envy of many councils and ratepayers alike but I wonder how many of them realise its hidden costs ?
7 The term " evening " can sometimes be something of a misnomer , as some of them publish their first editions midmorning .
8 Will I get an electrical shoak of I put my fit oan the rail ? ’ she asked .
9 Lorne sees best when looking through his camera viewfinder — the contents of which become his whole world .
10 There are different ways of making notes , all of which have their individual strengths and weaknesses .
11 They show , for example , how the full range of local authority associations , together with such professional bodies as SOLACE or CIPFA , have been deeply involved in financial matters but that their involvement is less apparent in other policy areas such as fire , education , housing and transport which are marked by their own configuration of interests ( such as the Institute of Housing Managers ) all of which have their own style of central-local relations .
12 No , well how many of us know our local policeman ?
13 The threat of HIV should make all of us examine our sexual behaviour and , if necessary , modify it .
14 I 'm sure you 'll find some interesting , I know maybe you 've , you 've er feel like you have your own church or something like that , but so many of the articles are in the general interest , you know , to everybody .
15 ‘ Even upstage reserved characters like myself have their weak spots , Chief Inspector .
16 With them come their prime enemies , the greater black-backed gulls .
17 I will conclude this chapter by considering a few objections to the account of authority suggested above which challenge its general orientation .
18 he said to me do me milky coffee
19 The compilation of this listing of Japanese survivors was considerably aided by the researches of Nick Veronico and Alan Curry , to whom go our many thanks .
20 She had done clerical work before she married , at which point her widowed mother came to live with her .
21 Steg needs every trick in the book-worm to make sure that his sprogs are fed — at which point our horrid hero moves to the next level and faces the same problems again .
22 The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party .
23 Indeed , despite their arguments that bile had little role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis the data of Gotley et al show that 75% of patients with gastrooesophageal reflux disease do have bile in their reflux aspirates at concentrations >30 µmol/l and that higher concentrations of bile were more common at night , at which time our gastric pH profiles show greatest alkalinity .
24 In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help .
25 No longer will I hold on to my lifelong belief that events in the world around me threaten my personal identity .
26 The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town .
27 Born in 1932 , he retired as a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency in 1981 , by which time his three books had started to come out .
28 This level , however , has been achieved by many of the developing countries today and expansion of their secondary and further education sectors will not by itself solve their economic problems .
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