Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 2 | But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other . |
| 3 | By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ . |
| 4 | Fewer than half of them wanted further education , while 29 per cent wanted training for skilled work , 9 per cent wanted vocational training and 15 per cent aspired to higher education . |
| 5 | Professionals in academic institutions often have an administrative and managerial role within the institution ; and over 80% of managers have had a college education , half of them studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 6 | When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’ |
| 7 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
| 8 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 9 | Some of them contain printed reports , some sheaves of handwritten minutes held together by Treasury tags . |
| 10 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 11 | The decision has left some of them facing financial hardship . |
| 12 | Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky . |
| 13 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 14 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 15 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 16 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 17 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 18 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 19 | There are over SmartIcons and some of them introduce new facilities . |
| 20 | Some of them use super P C K and some of them use Smart Drive and buggered if I can tell the difference . |
| 21 | Erm we do try and be nice to them we do try and give them presents occasionally like little , you may have seen some of them wearing little lions head badges which er are part of the arms of William that we had made . |
| 22 | Most of the other dancers in the company were straight from school , some of them taking leading parts while only about fifteen . |
| 23 | These deeply cut ravines might not seem too demanding , but some of them give unusual approaches to the high moorland plateaux , passing through impressive rock scenery which can offer the simple joys of scrambling , often above deep pools linked by cascades and waterfalls . |
| 24 | Once infected , people remain carriers of the virus for life , some of them suffering repeated attacks while others build up enough resistance to remain free of symptoms . |
| 25 | They have provided remedies for the treatment of some kinds of insanity , and some of them alter conscious experience in ways which are of great philosophical interest . |
| 26 | Their presence makes it difficult for the roof void to be used in the same way as traditional roofs , and there is often a temptation to remove some of them to gain extra space . |
| 27 | The number of people is , to an extent , a function of union rules , but some of them have real jobs to do . |
| 28 | I shall consider the implications of these developments more fully in the conclusion , as some of them have obvious connections with , and consequences for , the examination system . |
| 29 | Bedrooms are comfortably furnished , and some of them have excellent views of the surrounding mountains . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of them have 58-inch wheels and seeing one has been described as looking like a gothic cathedral coming towards you . ’ |