Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Francie had smuggled a tiny transistor radio into the house and on this he furtively listened to Radio Eireann sometimes , when there was music . |
| 2 | This he promptly brought into action in defence of his small brother , ran the farmer against a wall and threatened to run the fork through the aggressor . |
| 3 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 4 | But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail . |
| 5 | These he occasionally set to music himself , and he frequently sang them in his rich bass voice for his friends ' ( and perhaps the public 's ) pleasure … |
| 6 | With these you can forget all you ever heard about health care based on medical need . |
| 7 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 8 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 9 | The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising . |