Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure .
2 Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while .
3 This method gives children a clear idea of how groups of words relate to each other and makes it easier for them to remember new words and meanings .
4 It would also be a major knock-back for the scum because , without a doubt , he 's been the difference for them scoring vital goals and setting up others .
5 Today children are meeting and playing with children of other faiths so it is important for them to have some understanding and knowledge of each other 's traditions .
6 But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors .
7 After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle .
8 But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation .
9 It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required .
10 Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary .
11 Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots .
12 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
13 Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots .
14 It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again .
15 Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers .
16 Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again .
17 Erm , can I imagine erm two abstracted intellects , each of them doing geometrical proofs and say about the two of them is they go through the group of er the infinity of prime numbers , each of them is working that through .
18 As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs .
19 And the priests in Dunlaoghaire had been great , in and out all evening , three or maybe four of them saying nice things and talking to other people , making it seem somehow more normal , drinking cups of tea .
20 The newer constructions , however , are being built to six to eight stories high of ferro-concrete ; may of them having central air-conditioning and western-style toilets and private bathrooms .
21 A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch .
22 All of them have intact pouches and bowel frequency ranges from one to four per 24 hours .
23 Now all these countries have much cheaper labour force , most of them have warmer climates and with the advantages of low-price labour and also less expensive from the point of view of having to dry out leather and do these various processes that come in the production , the erm the leather tanning trade is being increased in those countries , with the knowledge and indeed the design of the western countries , because tanning is not the most salubrious of , er works .
24 ‘ Some of them have 58-inch wheels and seeing one has been described as looking like a gothic cathedral coming towards you . ’
25 Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will
26 My best wishes for the start of your classes in September , good luck to those of you starting new classes and especially to our newly qualified teachers .
27 What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time .
28 This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time .
29 So , erm , and also as Joan pointed out if you 've got four , if two of you want one thing and two another , there is n't a casting vote , so erm , five might be better .
30 William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ .
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