Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 2 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 3 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 4 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 5 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 6 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 7 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 8 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 9 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 10 | Finally , Bell draws specific attention to the growth of professional and technical workers and identifies them as the key occupations around which the structure of post-industrial society is organized . |
| 11 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 12 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 13 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 15 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 16 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 17 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 18 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 19 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 20 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 21 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 22 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 23 | It 's part of the the I I P I actually picked up , rather irritatingly retrospectively , erm some things from the tech , erm that actually take me through the various stages of I I P . |
| 24 | " I shall never forget " , he said , " the support and help he gave me during the critical months of the revolution in 1917 . |
| 25 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 26 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 27 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 28 | The shepherds gather their flocks and drive them towards the neighbouring woods in the hope of saving them . |
| 29 | They say if they are barred from Skinnergate and High Row in Darlington it will force them towards the hazardous roundabouts on the inner ring road . |
| 30 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |