Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 2 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 3 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nothing about these ones that 's already been in . |
| 8 | But we had to tell them about some modifications that needed to be done . |
| 9 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 10 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 11 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 12 | Silence fell , hanging over them for several minutes before Travis broke it with a casual observation . |
| 13 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 14 | African hunting dogs ( opposite , bottom ) attack their prey in a pack , pursuing them for several miles if necessary . |
| 15 | If necessary , you can leave them for several months and the beetles will continue to feed and reproduce . |
| 16 | These are independent companies who are responsible for providing customers with their mobile communications equipment and a range of services , and billing them for these products and services . |
| 17 | There 's those coats Gordon , there 's several of them after those coats that er I got ta take them for . |
| 18 | One day I 'm going to chop my through those rhododendrons and wake you from your hundred-year-sleep , Sleeping Beauty . " |
| 19 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 20 | The ‘ Mats for the Homeless ’ account will remain open — as do I to any ideas or suggestions for future developments . |
| 21 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 22 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 23 | Yet , as an American historian has explained , the negotiations leading to bizonia provided the British with " ample evidence to disabuse them of any misconceptions that American policy in Germany was devised to aid Great Britain " . |
| 24 | My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) . |
| 25 | With such a wide range of displays from around the world in one massive exhibition there is something for everyone of all ages and interests . |
| 26 | There 's summat about these lights that remind me of Annie — I du n no what it is . |
| 27 | There is n't actually erm , on card F , which of these magazines or type of magazines do you usually read ? |
| 28 | Which of these magazines if any , connected to stamp collecting and philately in general , do you know of ? |
| 29 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 30 | To identify somebody with such skills and sufficient knowledge of the subject matter who also has the time and energy to take on the task will be a major problem to most groups . |