Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 2 | After 1911 , women whose husbands were in insured employment received a maternity benefit of 30/ rising to £2 after World War I , which was completely absorbed by the cost of an attendant , leaving nothing for extra food and necessities for the mother and baby . |
| 3 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 4 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 5 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 7 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the only people making money' out of BBC programmes are the pirates , who are busily taping programmes ‘ off-air ’ , duplicating and selling them through shady shops and Middle Eastern outlets . |
| 9 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 10 | Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick . |
| 11 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 12 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 13 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 14 | He rattled them between cupped hands and threw them into the dust . |
| 15 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 16 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 17 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 18 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 19 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 20 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 21 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 23 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 24 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 25 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 26 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 27 | ’ I gather you want me for 2 deaths and a fire . ’ |
| 28 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 29 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 30 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |