Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we 're still trying to get them through the Police Authority but we are making provision through this budget if we do n't , yeah |
| 2 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 3 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |
| 4 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 5 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 6 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 7 | If the company is large , there may be a special person to look after the scheme on a day-to-day basis : often this is someone in the personnel department . |
| 8 | He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether someone from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her . |
| 9 | ( He is put off by the sight of Wayne , who is pogoing furiously behind his keyboards , like someone at a Members gig in 1978 ) Erm , excuse me , but what do you think you 're doing ? |
| 10 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 11 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 12 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 13 | There are three battlefields to yomp through and , rest assured , plenty of the Generals minions are there to roll out the red carpet for Cap and the major ( at least the blood stains wo n't show ! ) . |
| 14 | For the moment , Simon is busy trying to familiarise himself with the mysteries babies bring into the home — such as nappies . |
| 15 | Somebody in a Bugs Bunny suit is going round dishing out little Easter eggs to all the toddlers in the place . |
| 16 | Erm if anybody is actually interested in could I actually refer you to somebody in the personnel group erm Lynne . |
| 17 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 18 | It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left . |
| 19 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 20 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 21 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 22 | He moved his heels slightly and the horse edged towards me like a police horse controlling a crowd . |
| 23 | As the attached Ultimate Entry Bond confirms , you as the names participant have been awarded Six Exclusive Prize Draw Codes . |
| 24 | None of the schemes Curzon feared was to be accomplished . |
| 25 | None of the operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) , in so far as they affect the minors , can make a minor of order r + 1 nonzero , nor make the minor of order r vanish , since they merely condense these minors . |
| 26 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 27 | None of the Saints candidates advanced their claims for inclusion in Malcolm Reilly 's tour squad which the Great Britain coach will announce tomorrow morning . |
| 28 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock said that there were two exceptions to the principle that it would be an abuse of the process of the court not to bring a purely public judicial review action under Ord. 53 : first , Ord. 53 need not be used when none of the parties objects to the use procedure by writ or summons . |
| 29 | As usual none of the customs officers was armed . |
| 30 | When in 1988 Deutsche Grammophon reissued on compact disc the recordings Karajan made in Berlin , Amsterdam , and Turin between 1938 and 1943 , the New York Times published an article on music-making in wartime Germany that concluded with the speculation that in none of the recordings Karajan made at this time is there any evidence that ‘ the soul was troubled ’ . |