Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Functionally the nerve cells may be sensory ( afferent ) neurons , conveying impulses inwards from the sense organs ( p. 123 ff. ) , motor or efferent neurons , conveying them outwards to the effector organs , and association neurons ( interneurons ) that link the other two types . |
| 2 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 3 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd track me down through the credit cards I use , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ It was obviously a good way to raise money for local charities , instead of just throwing them away in the waste bins . |
| 6 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
| 7 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 8 | It is , however , quicker and more accurate to calculate them arithmetically from the summary points . |
| 9 | The Fanatics are the real weapon , the Mob is just a means of deploying them close to the enemy lines . |
| 10 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 11 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 12 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 13 | That leads you right onto the south fields . |
| 14 | Race you down to the nursery slopes ! ’ |
| 15 | find out a few details and I 'll meet you back at the estate agents |
| 16 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 17 | Once the core units are engaged you can pile in alongside them or form them up beside the core units to block enemy attacks from the sides . |
| 18 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 19 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 20 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 21 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 22 | British troops shepherded them out of the monastery buildings into 19 Warrior armoured vehicles . |
| 23 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 24 | parcel them out amongst the estate agents . |
| 25 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 26 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 27 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 28 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 29 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |
| 30 | The shock of an impact struck him squarely between the shoulder blades , and suddenly he knew exactly where he was . |