Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 2 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 3 | The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war . |
| 4 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 5 | An illustrated booklet to accompany the series was prepared by a member of the Ipswich Tutorial Class and questions which arose during the post-broadcast class discussion were forwarded to Mrs. Adams who dealt with them during the following week 's transmission . |
| 6 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 7 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 8 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 9 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 10 | In his now famous interview on Wednesday , Lamb pointed the finger at Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , who shared 45 wickets between them during the five-match Test series . |
| 11 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 12 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 13 | treat everyone as a temporary language helper . |
| 14 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 15 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 16 | June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital . |
| 17 | Janice sends very many thanks to everyone for the lovely flowers she received while in hospital recently and thanks also to the super evening she spent at Avery Hill Easter Party . |
| 18 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 19 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 20 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 21 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 22 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 23 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 25 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 26 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 27 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 28 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 29 | Press them through a stainless steel wire sieve . |
| 30 | And then , before she could prepare herself , Luke swung them through a wide gateway buried deeply in the trees . |