Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the half-caste kids them they used to left me alone . |
| 2 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 3 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 4 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 5 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 6 | They eat plants and animals which they kill with poisoned arrows . |
| 7 | Others spend their ill-gotten gains on fast chariots which they race against each other , trying to outdo their rivals by having the fastest or flashiest machine . |
| 8 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 9 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 10 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 11 | I remember the books which I read in that time with a great love . |
| 12 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 13 | Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state . |
| 14 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 15 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 16 | Hi Jinks had an awesome range of martial skills which she practiced on small children . |
| 17 | In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication . |
| 18 | Officers showed us two-and-a-half thousand Russian icons which they seized in two swoops on illegal exporters . |
| 19 | Unlike the other activities which we describe in this section , there was no outsider initiative , input or audience in relation to the efforts of this school 's staff . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , this would be to empty the term of most of the meanings which it carries in actual discourse . |
| 21 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 22 | Many people use them to build up a tax-free fund for youngsters which they get at 18 or 21 , although you are restricted to one scheme per person . |
| 23 | That alliance promised the prospect of a kingdom in the areas which they wrested from Ottoman control . |
| 24 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 25 | He gave her chips which she ate with great deliberation . |
| 26 | In this way people who would not in fact have been risky themselves , because of personal or background circumstances which they share with genuine bad payers , join those bad payers in a ‘ credit ghetto ’ where credit — if they can get it at all — costs too much . |
| 27 | ‘ Seek the cloister ’ ; ‘ stay safe in port ’ : these were the precepts which he gave to those who desired true freedom . |
| 28 | Certainly the lectures which he delivered in 1944 — " Johnson as Critic and Poet " at University College , Bangor , " What Is Minor Poetry ? " to the Association of Bookmen in Swansea , " What Is A Classic ? " to the Virgil Society , of which he was president — are not among his best , the latter seeming particularly forced and mechanical . |
| 29 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 30 | Here , as elsewhere ( Bittner 1965 ) , we seem to have been misled by an essentialist definitional procedure which concentrates on the differences between phenomena and neglects those other matters which they have in common . |