Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’
2 The fact that he could do nothing about it made Burun 's enjoyment of the situation all the sweeter .
3 So we 're the first to have them after them gaining number one .
4 No-one of them speaks German .
5 May I urge each and everyone of you to show support and consideration to all your colleagues and to the Society , be positive in your thinking and openminded in your views .
6 Even Airbus plans to shrink its 150-seat A320 , but could be forbidden to do so by DASA and Aerospatiale , which between them control 75% of Airbus .
7 The centres are all currently Executive Agencies which between them generate business worth more than £100m a year .
8 Six prominent keiretsu ( networks of firms centred on the Mitsui , Mitsubishi and Sumitomo trading groups and the Fuji , Sanwa and Dai-Ichi Kangyo banking empires ) group together 12,000 companies which between them have sales equivalent to a quarter of Japan 's GNP .
9 He emphasised the ineffectiveness of many health care activities and the importance of evaluation to determine which of them benefited health .
10 The question of exactly which left handers have speech located on one side of the brain or the other and which of them have speech represented bilaterally can not yet be answered unequivocally .
11 Which of you gave Sir Thomas his salad ? ’ he enquired casually .
12 Erm they will leave it to their practice manager and the practice manager will do his or her her best to list out as many businesses which with they have links or are local .
13 That poems are alive but they run away from you , you know and you have difficulty catching them like you have difficulty catching foxes .
14 If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben , it would have meant no hope for me .
15 It will probably haunt me like it did Walter Winterbottom when he lost to the States in 1950 .
16 Double booked : Twins Gareth ( left ) and Jonathan Boreland aged 16 who between them gained Grade A in 20 GCSEs .
17 Your tribute to Derailleur , who as you reminded readers ( This week , 21 April , p 135 ) ‘ invented his [ bicycle gear ] system in the 1920s ’ was as welcome as it was belated , But Derailleur is only one of the many forgotten pioneers of road transport .
18 ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’
19 The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ?
20 If we needed to talk to your scheme and if we would , it would be fairly serious incident for us to come to you , to tell you about it ask Phil for some help with it .
21 The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing .
22 But none of them made sense .
23 None of them speaks Alsatian . ’
24 The later books have very much the air of contrived sequels , with young conspirators or princes in training cut from the same pattern and taking , one by one , the centre of a story , none of them capturing attention as the Stormy Petrel had done as a boy .
25 Luke had turned his attention back to the other women , and none of them had attention to spare for anyone but him .
26 None of them had headgear or bore any sign of rank or unit .
27 As Adam said , none of them drank sherry and he did n't know anyone under fifty who did .
28 None of them carry malaria but lots of them bite .
29 None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together .
30 None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent .
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