Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 2 | Severn Trent which held the record for disconnections last year , the chief executive , Roderick sold one hundred and thirty seven thousand shares at four hundred and eighty eight P under a share options scheme , and that was after buying them the same day , for two hundred and sixty two P . |
| 3 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 4 | There was also disagreement over the proposal to improve benefits and entitlements for part-time workers , and the Commission was forced in June 1990 to postpone the idea of offering them the same rights , on a pro-rata basis , as their full-time counterparts . |
| 5 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 6 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 7 | He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good . |
| 8 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 9 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 10 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 11 | While he was n't able to resist indulging his rather immature sense of humour by selling me a few dummies , my father could n't abide a son of his not being a credit to him in some way ; my body was a forlorn hope for any improvement , so only my mind was left . |
| 12 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 13 | Like the emerging national plan , the Florida measure seeks to make health-insurance benefits available to the working poor by giving them the same clout in the marketplace as employees of big companies . |