Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already .
2 But of course Downton is a huge company , too , and would have dragged everyone through the courts if necessary . ’
3 I remember nothing of the days before I left Jean-Claude .
4 Johnson 's offence surrounded a drug called Reactivin , which in the days after the controversy broke was described as a pep-pill , a pick-me-up , an anti-depressant , a psycho-motor stimulant and ‘ a substance normally taken for post-natal depression ’ .
5 This year Medau has returned to Cromer which in the days before Norfolk had any training scheme was the venue of the Medau Society 's Summer School .
6 And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there
7 He had her by the arms before she could move , his face like granite as he glared down at her .
8 Care must be taken when using these servos to avoid stalling them against the end-stops as large currents will be drawn by the servo amplifier that may eventually cause permanent damage .
9 She was aware that none of the men except Luke took her seriously as a player .
10 ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’
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13 A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory .
14 He does n't look you in the eyes when he talks ; he answers quietly with head bowed .
15 Cos it i it should n't just be your preparation should not just be a one-off hour hour and a half what have you on the Sundays when you come along .
16 Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you .
17 ‘ Why the hell did n't they sell you to the Angels when they had the chance ? ’
18 But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further .
19 She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’
20 not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment .
21 W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt .
22 Benjamin pulled me into the shadows as Mandeville came out to issue curt instructions for the dead sheriff 's body to be removed and informed the soldiers that he would stay at Templecombe for a while .
23 There was something about the movies although not too many people stopped to ask what it was .
24 Deborah 's got one with the flags when me and Deborah tried to do them once , we could n't do it .
25 I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation .
26 Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that
27 Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons .
28 The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes .
29 Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered .
30 We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here .
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