Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We paid her my first big visit in Brooklyn , she had n't met me except on the phone . |
| 2 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Such manoeuvring , though , is symptomatic of the distrust which they face , and reflects less on them than on the dominant culture of the age . |
| 4 | Since they were provided to enable the binder to collect the various gatherings or sections in the right order before putting the covers round , much more care was exercised with them than with the page numbering . |
| 5 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 7 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 8 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 9 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 10 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 11 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 12 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 13 | Maintenance of the driver and command files for the process is very much the LIFESPAN Manager 's responsibility , and what better way to keep track of them than inside the process to which they refer . |
| 14 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 15 | More Welsh homes — 72 per cent — are owned by those who live in them than in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 16 | Pain and suffering — what did suffering mean to them except as a path to purity ? ’ |
| 17 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 18 | The individuals most concerned on these three occasions do not usually instigate them except in the case of the marriage . |
| 19 | My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended . |
| 20 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 21 | It was a habit which helped to avoid any major personal quarrels between them until after the demise of the Government . |
| 22 | In actually physically up dating anything , I would suggest that at this point that Simon does n't do of them until after the next meeting when we have got all the other 's together as well because again they may attach things , just that you 've got your information and know what 's been decided and do the whole lot after the next meeting . |
| 23 | The thought worried me until about the sixth month of my second pregnancy . |
| 24 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 25 | But I go for them cos of the bright yellow packaging ! |
| 26 | So we thought , No if we can stop them to speak to them cos at the end of the day we ca n't actually stop them going up , we can give them as much harassment as we can yes er and keep within the law . |
| 27 | I see no more in you than in the ordinary |
| 28 | From what I could see in the mirror he looked more interested in you than in the bureau . ’ |
| 29 | I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it ! |
| 30 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |