Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One good look at Ruari 's strained face and Mairi Ban had him on his feet , his arms over their shoulders for them to help him home . |
| 2 | Which aspects of yourself do you consciously acknowledge ? |
| 3 | Shae was made of different stuff ; in his company she felt as though she were walking under a permanent spotlight , and the awareness of questioning eyes upon her made her deeply uncomfortable . |
| 4 | So do I , but we change our definitions of everything to fit our most central desires . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd like to see loads of you visit us here in the ‘ home of Leeds-United ’ for this one . |
| 6 | Ormanroyd towers above everyone knocks it down to Thomson Pearce whips it away . |
| 7 | white rails round them did you always have those rails ? |
| 8 | Most species require very soft and slightly acid water conditions with clumps of fine-leaved plants in which to scatter their strongly adhesive eggs . |
| 9 | The British people may give themselves five years in which to work it out . |
| 10 | There are still more than ten years in which to hound you out of Millbank [ the Tate ] and it shall be done . |
| 11 | Thirty years on I saw it again , when I started going to the Aegean . |
| 12 | However , 40 years on I find it extremely difficult to accept a charge of £23.50 plus for a medal to commemorate your service to your country . |
| 13 | In truth there were too many small problems for us to recommend it as exclusive , everyday transport . |
| 14 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 15 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 16 | When Black Annis howled , you could hear her five miles away and then even the poor people in their huts fastened skins across the window and put witch-herbs above it to keep her away safe . |
| 17 | The diversification of the sciences and the theoretical changes within them make it extremely difficult to locate a unique set of principles by which harmony could be guaranteed . |
| 18 | Images of that immortal sea , of children sporting on the shore and the mighty waters rolling evermore , are not so much allusions to what brought us hither , as Wordsworth would have it , but reminders to book this year 's holiday to the Costa del Sol or the Bahamas . |
| 19 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 20 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 21 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 22 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 23 | When Victoria found the grit from the paths got into her sandals , Richard removed her shoes and socks and shook all the gravel out of them , folding her socks for her to put them on again in the special way that her nanny did . |
| 24 | Many feminists also rejected the ‘ scramble for husbands ’ , induced by the need of middle class women for someone to maintain them financially . |
| 25 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 26 | We do n't need an apikoros like you to tell us how oppressed we are . |
| 27 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 28 | When I first put the boots on I found them surprisingly stiff — given this solid feel I wondered why there was n't a traditional square cut heel on what 's quite a heavily cleated waterproof sole . |
| 29 | and there were no facilities for you try it on |
| 30 | ‘ Receiving briefings from him makes it even more like old times , ’ says a Thatcher adviser . |