Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 2 | When the children grew up they had a restricted freedom because the ‘ little people ’ did not permit them to go beyond certain points on a piece of land so the giants rebelled against this , thus starting a war . |
| 3 | In these schools , while national legislation will nudge staff to introduce procedures for involving and informing parents where this is required by law , it will not encourage them to go beyond such procedures to establish the kinds of voluntary open dialogue and day-to-day collaboration which can do so much to enhance the quality of a child 's education . |
| 4 | ‘ Tickets for the concert evening at the King 's Hall will be going on sale soon and we can expect them to go like hot cakes . |
| 5 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |
| 6 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 7 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
| 8 | No-one goes to greater lengths to get the perfect fruit for their juice . |
| 9 | Natural selection will therefore favour adaptations in males that enable them to mate with more females ; but it will favour discrimination in females , if males vary in their quality as mates . |
| 10 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 11 | Apart from cleaning each pane , they take photographs of the windows which help them paint in missing images , in keeping with the overall style . |
| 12 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 13 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 14 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 15 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 16 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 17 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 18 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 19 | The disinterested passions compel me to see from other viewpoints , but also blind me to the equality of viewpoints . |
| 20 | You 've raised me to sit in high places |
| 21 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 22 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 23 | It would also require them to agree to revenue-sharing arrangements , since clubs from large cities otherwise would gain a big advantage over those from smaller ones , which would veto the deal . |
| 24 | Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all . |
| 25 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 26 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 27 | These figures are n't showing an upturn , and there is nothing to indicate from inter-company comparisons that anybody else in the industry is experiencing anything different . ’ |
| 28 | But no-one cares about those things nowadays ’ , Aghredien added . |
| 29 | Quite quickly the contact between the two sections of the rural population can become limited to the activity of a few ‘ go-betweens ’ , whose employment requires them to relate to both sides . |
| 30 | Couns Frank Robson and Alan Robinson ( Lab ) have asked people living nearby to let them know of any problems although they are optimistic the new owners will run the club responsibly . |