Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 2 | Bloody ridiculous them blokes at the DTI pushing assistance for Huerter . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 4 | I thanked him and left , taking with me copies of the statements in the Southwark Bridge case file . |
| 5 | ‘ Ace , can you get me copies of the print-outs ? ’ |
| 6 | for changes which are rejected , but do not require resolution by the Director , Information Systems , inform the Development Manager and the Manager of the person who requested the change of the decision by sending them copies of the Change Review Forms |
| 7 | Seventeen killed in them houses at the top of our street . |
| 8 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 9 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 10 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 11 | If your library does not participate in the work of the SUC , or if you are currently considering automation and would like advice on automated input , tape compatibility , etc. , please contact Eileen Watson , the Editor of the SUC at Lending Services , from whom copies of the full results of the questionnaire survey can also be obtained . |
| 12 | A further category of ‘ opposition ’ , which requires careful attention , commonly arises from the fact that the various government departments on whom copies of the order have ( by requirement under the General Orders ) been served will frequently raise sundry points of concern to them . |
| 13 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 14 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 15 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 16 | I mean if one of them steps under a bus and you start valuing his estate for probate , Ullo , ullo , ullo , how much is a case of Russian grenades worth ? ’ |
| 17 | You 're whippin' it round between me legs like a bloody Red Indian . |
| 18 | Digital watches work because a small sliver of quartz inside them pulses at a rhythmic and unchanging frequency , which is stimulated by energy from the battery . |
| 19 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 20 | At the last count , Britain boasted about 11 million private shareholders , the majority of them beneficiaries of the privatisation boom . |
| 21 | Pictures of the gate were shown to the court and several witnesses have been recalled , among them inspectors from the from the RSPCA which brought the charges . |
| 22 | ‘ About time someone put down them niggers like the mad dogs they are , ’ someone cried , raising a laugh from his rescuers . |
| 23 | Soeriaatmadja showed me pictures of the devastation caused recently by one elephant in West Sumatra who had knocked down 170 homes . |
| 24 | I took him to the St Petersburg library , let him show me pictures of the uniforms . |
| 25 | Miners may strike in support of nurses , but that does n't make them fighters for the equality of women or for women as women . |
| 26 | The RCD won 3,750 council seats while the remaining 34 went to independents , most of them defectors from the RCD . |
| 27 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |
| 28 | To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy ’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . |
| 29 | Israeli security forces carried out a series of raids in the West Bank on Jan. 22 resulting in the arrest of at least 60 Palestinians , most of them supporters of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 30 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |