Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War , tram crews had to carry gas masks and don them during air raids , as this picture shows . |
| 2 | For example , line management required a list of their staff , showing basic salary , age and other basic information in date of start order in order to aid them during appraisal sessions . |
| 3 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 4 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 5 | Exceptions would be certain Loranthaceous and Viscaceous seeds , which birds remove from their bills by brushing them through bark crevices , or the passage of seeds through an animal to germinate in its dung . |
| 6 | Stealing them for resale , stealing from them , making phoney insurance claims after getting them stolen for you , even putting them through council crushers — £626 million . |
| 7 | Both the staff pension fund and TOPS are in the hands of trustees who run them through management committees . |
| 8 | A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy . |
| 9 | If there is anyone in your parish whom you think might be interested and suitable , perhaps you would draw their attention to these posts and encourage them to write to me for application forms and job description . |
| 10 | And that is happening currently with people in schools in Oxford , who come to me for Business Studies , for just about one or two weeks tuition , they then go and pass . |
| 11 | She kept examining me for bullet wounds , I think . |
| 12 | She knew nothing about field forces or induction or anything of that sort . |
| 13 | However , a review which was triggered by a crisis of confidence over NHS funding ended by saying nothing about funding levels at all and leaving the method of funding through general taxation unchanged ( apart from the ideological blip of allowing tax relief on private health insurance for the over 65s ) . |
| 14 | Still with no instructions , by trial and error , I discovered how to do welts , Fisherman 's rib and even racking , but I still knew nothing about tension squares . |
| 15 | Consider an unemployed individual who desires to work but knows nothing about job vacancies and is thus ‘ searching ’ for a suitable job in a segment of the labour market . |
| 16 | First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side . |
| 17 | In addition , it proves only geodesic incompleteness and says nothing about curvature singularities . |
| 18 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 19 | No one seemed to have told them about ration books . |
| 20 | An extremely ‘ permissive ’ parent , on the other hand , attempts to behave in a non-punitive , accepting and affirmative manner towards children 's impulses , desires and actions ; always to consult with them about policy decisions and give explanations for family rules ; to make few demands for household responsibility and orderly behaviour ; to present himself/herself to them as someone to call upon for help and company as they wish , rather than as an active ‘ disciplinary agent ’ responsible for shaping or altering behaviour . |
| 21 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 22 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 23 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |
| 24 | ‘ In terms of general plant , Piper was bigger than us , while we were larger than them as crane operators , ’ he said . |
| 25 | There is something familiar about the single shoe in the road or the hoof print in the mud , yet Louise Short elevates these fragments by preserving them as plaster casts and ordering them in installations which trace the passage of people and animals . |
| 26 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 27 | There are several aspects of the faunal assemblages accumulated by predators that may be considered in identifying them as prey assemblages . |
| 28 | He always thought of them as mirror men , full of quickfire patter and smooth gestures , distracting , creating images . |
| 29 | Arnold , at one time headmaster of Eastbourne College , purchased a number of sites with the expressed intention of improving them as bird habitats . |
| 30 | If there are good arguments for using video regularly as a carrier of lectures — sometimes the case in a programme which is repeated in several centres — then there may be equally good arguments for planning and recording them as video programmes . |