Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 2 | Well , I was doing this for him in a loving sort of wifely way and he said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I want to get rid of you ’ and I said , ‘ Thank you very much ’ and he said , ‘ Well , finish the trousers and post them on . ’ |
| 3 | We can arrange this for you for an additional fee . |
| 4 | By 1992 , brewers with more than 2,000 pubs will have to turn half of them above the 2,000 ceiling into quasi free houses . |
| 5 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 6 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 7 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 8 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 9 | I said I wished mine to be destroyed , but asked if I might keep some of hers of a literary interest . |
| 10 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 11 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 12 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 13 | ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden . |
| 14 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 15 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 16 | It was here that they were found , over 30,000 of them , stored in boxes and covered in dust , some of them in a poor condition . |
| 17 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 18 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 19 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 20 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 21 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 22 | A multiplicity of stations would appear in each Latin American capital of importance , some of them among the grandest anywhere . |
| 23 | Since then , techniques such as seismic surveys , mechanised geochemical analysis , and isotopic research , have become available , and the theoretical framework of research in these geologically interesting areas has provided the potential for a great deal of re-interpretation , some of it of a fundamental nature , contributing to theoretical developments in geology . |
| 24 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 25 | The Victorians also come in for considerable attention , some of it with a feminist slant , while , not surprisingly perhaps , Latin America still seems to be chic . |
| 26 | Their sunshine tour , some of it aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia , will take in eight countries — Anguilla , Dominica , Guyana , Belize , the Cayman Islands , Jamaica , the Bahamas and Bermuda . |
| 27 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 28 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 29 | Ha I have to go along here some , to some of you with a bossy statement of you know , this inclusive as opposed |
| 30 | THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed , farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene . |