Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage .
2 Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste .
3 Meanwhile , the Schopenhauerian aspects of his theory contradicted his own earlier doctrines without in fact bringing them properly into line with Schopenhauer 's aesthetic itself .
4 But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account .
5 This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects .
6 Charlton 's win keeps them right in contention .
7 Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps .
8 WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer .
9 All the clothes are chosen carefully , so that you can get them on without discomfort to the patient .
10 She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats .
11 As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale .
12 But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’
13 In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size .
14 The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common .
15 No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match .
16 When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats .
17 It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play .
18 By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless .
19 Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ?
20 When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position .
21 Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ?
22 Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters .
23 Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric .
24 The beads , sew them on to fabric
25 If there is an outstanding success , he 'll get them on to television and into the national press .
26 I I 'm pretty sure that that 's so , Chair , and you d when you say you 're recruiting erm , young people from school , training or , erm , taking them on to engineering vacancies .
27 If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required .
28 The walls , curved or octagonal , gleamed into brilliance as Jezrael passed , dying behind her until the next person switched them on by body-heat .
29 Well , you 've written in a article , you say by merely acknowledging our feelings we are less likely to pass them on by osmosis to those who are emotionally bound to us .
30 So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards .
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