Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 6 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 7 | Books are me most prized possessions , ye ken . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Young argues that ‘ When ambition is crossed with stupidity it may do nothing besides foster frustration ’ . |
| 10 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 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 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 18 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Or it might have been that he saw , in the younger screenplay writer , someone before whom all false reticence could be cast aside . |
| 21 | He was the funnel through whom all subsequent experience of the Spirit of God would be mediated . |
| 22 | But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | you did , you 're the cleverest girl in the world are n't you ? there 's your space suit where are you ? , come here while I pull your pants up , pants up first , pants up first lets run some water wait a minute your trousers are not pulled up right both hands in a little bit of soap on , now rub them together good rinse , get all the soap off , right shake , rattle and roll , hands washed , I mean dried sorry |
| 25 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 26 | It followed the taste of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert , for whom highly coloured bedding plants had been newly fashionable ; successive generations at Balmoral , monarchs and men alike , had valued continuity above innovation . |
| 27 | Me only cruel immortality Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms . |
| 28 | But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted . |
| 29 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 30 | Fury filled his canine brain and coursed through his powerfully muscled body . |