Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 2 | ‘ Many parents bring me rebellious teenagers with the plea , ‘ Please change her , doctor ! ' ’ |
| 3 | Them twilly things like |
| 4 | You know she used to be so petite , but god them damn legs on her ! |
| 5 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 6 | I can see them bloody lines on her stocking |
| 7 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 8 | Though I am not superstitious or religious in any formal sense , I do feel that certain places that have had working within them strong forces for either good or evil absorb something and retain some of that force . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to find among them ample illustrations of Ruskin 's dictum that architecture reflects the life of the society around it . |
| 10 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 11 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 12 | The training officer would issue them due warnings at interview : " This is a cut-throat business . |
| 13 | Teachers preparing for examinations … will find them rich sources of information . |
| 14 | The pensioners claim the society did n't give them adequate warnings of the risks involved when it advised them how to invest their money . |
| 15 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 16 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 17 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 18 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 19 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 20 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 21 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , she 's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury , and she wants Hayley to go back . |
| 23 | Chris Lawrence , in working with a class of London children , showed them some photographs of ‘ dancers ’ whom the children were later to meet and instruct on the movement of animals . |
| 24 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
| 25 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 26 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 27 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 28 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 29 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 30 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |