Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she 's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury , and she wants Hayley to go back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
| 9 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 10 | We 're running out of time as usual , so if I can just come to that final line to you to consider and give me some views on them before you go . |
| 11 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 12 | ‘ But if you could give me some minutes of your time , I 'd happily delay my visit , ’ she suggested — and silently added , or not go to Prague at all . |
| 13 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 14 | George is , George is gon na get me some lights for on here , did you know ? |
| 15 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 16 | And can you give me some examples of the firms that the University 's managed to help ? |
| 17 | Cos I 'm hoping cos I 've got a in Manchester get me some recordings from the public library . |
| 18 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 19 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 20 | She brought me some oranges from my orchard but I could n't eat them . |
| 21 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 22 | Could you give me some guidelines on propagating them , so I have plants to give away ? |
| 23 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 24 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 25 | ‘ Get me some plectrums from that shop in Charing Cross Road ! ’ |
| 26 | Mr Paul Craddock who is a director of Horizon has kindly sent me some details of the paranormal events that have earned the studio a certain reputation for experiences of the , shall we say , ‘ unexpected ’ . |
| 27 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 28 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 29 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 30 | At the same time , many governments offered social reforms to ease the plight of workers and give them fewer grounds for opposition . |