Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized the importance of kinship systems for the Indians and how for them most social relationships were seen in terms of who was the child of whom and who was married to whom . |
| 2 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 3 | Charred-edged holes appeared in their skin , while behind them little dry chunks of flesh fell into the powdery dust that covered the ground . |
| 4 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 5 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 6 | Books are me most prized possessions , ye ken . |
| 7 | Father Andrew , the saintly co-founder of the Society of the Divine Compassion , wrote to one of his many correspondents : ‘ To me it is one of me most hopeful things of this epoch that it has produced C. S. Lewis . ’ |
| 8 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 9 | Jack had seen them all many times . |
| 10 | James brought them all more drinks . |
| 11 | I would n't worry Bruce , it seems to me Stiff Little Fingers are virtually indestructible . |
| 12 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 13 | They had twelve children , of whom only six daughters and one son survived infancy . |
| 14 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 15 | The form of your letter to a tenant ( left undated until completion ) could be : re Blackacre The above property has today been sold by our client , Mr Jones , to Mr John Smith of Whiteacre , to whom all future payments of rent should be made . |
| 16 | These data , as presented , are difficult to interpret because ( i ) fewer crypt intraepithelial lymphocytes than surface intraepithelial lymphocytes ( per 100 enterocyte nuclei ) were found ; ( ii ) no detectable response to gluten/gliadin challenge , contrary to other findings , was observed ; and ( iii ) data were analysed and presented in terms of total specimens counted rather than numbers of patients from whom all such specimens derived . |
| 17 | The ensuing problems for a reforming commissioner begin at the top , with the Scotland Yard policy committee — the deputy , assistant and deputy assistant commissioners , by whom all major changes have , effectively , to be ratified . |
| 18 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 19 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 20 | Biofeedback treatment was performed in all but two patients ( patients 1 and 2 , Table I ) , in whom all manometric results were within the normal range . |
| 21 | Then you owe me so many hours do n't you ? |
| 22 | ‘ Jack told me so many things but what I remember most was him stressing that I should keep my energy and emotional levels the same throughout a round of golf . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , why are you asking me so many questions ? ’ |
| 24 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 25 | You 've told me so several times , ’ she said with a flash of her old spirit . |
| 26 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 27 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 28 | We are with them constantly seven days a week and each day that passes it becomes harder to comprehend that they were ever convicted of such a crime . |
| 29 | It took them only 10 minutes to break the deadlock with Seamus Duffy curling home a direct free kick after a handball offence from 25 yards . |
| 30 | But Aymer , and after him his widow , remained in possession of their Limousin and Angoumois lordships until Charles V of France confiscated them only five years before her death in 1377 . |