Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 2 | Catch some flies , small moths , mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar . |
| 3 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 4 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 5 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 6 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 7 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 8 | Official human rights sources in the country reported 228 " extrajudicial executions " and 45 disappearances in 1991 , two-thirds of them attributable to the security forces and civil patrols . |
| 9 | After handling each recruit 's clothes the Chief-Corporal swilled his hands over with surgical spirit , wiping them dry on a piece of grey towel . |
| 10 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 11 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 12 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 13 | She stands before me solid as a rivet . |
| 14 | They looked very strange , it is true , but they kept me dry in the rain . |
| 15 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 16 | And that wretched Richard , ’ she added impatiently , ‘ Has got me right in a corner by bringing that nice man here and letting him invite Dickie down to Devon . |
| 17 | Quite simply , this will ensure that the loan repayments are protected if you are unable to meet them due to the death , illness or injury of specified members of your business . |
| 18 | Those local authorities contain the number of Labour members that serve on them due to the choice of the electorate . |
| 19 | Each student entering , gains experience and confidence and for the winners , many doors open to them due to the kudos of the event and the talent they have demonstrated . |
| 20 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 21 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 22 | See I do I get them right in the class |
| 23 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 24 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 25 | We can then pay them direct with the possibility of obtaining a discount . |
| 26 | The program enables you to make designs , print them out , or transfer them direct to the E6000 console . |
| 27 | Manufacturers of goods such as machine tools , computers , ships and other large or expensive items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving middlemen or intermediaries . |
| 28 | Once the syndicate was formed and terms agreed , the borrower would sell the bonds to the managing group , which in turn would sell them direct to the underwriters or the selling group , who in turn would distribute the bonds to the public . |
| 29 | The charge was reasonable enough — a few pence per bird — and with a community in which many families kept hens or whose menfolk were able to buy them direct from the country farmer Rev. Levitt 's qualification as a slaughterer of fowls brought him a regular , if modest , bonus on his salary . |
| 30 | MUSIC lovers were yesterday told how to make ‘ significant ’ savings on compact discs by ordering them direct from the US . |