Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 2 | There are plenty of army officers , by no means all of them supporters of radical causes , who think the army should not be used to settle political arguments with the republics . |
| 3 | ‘ As a midwife I thought I knew how to communicate with mothers , but my skills with deaf women were abysmal , ’ she says |
| 4 | Before her course she says ‘ my skills with deaf women were abysmal ’ |
| 5 | By July I was able to set out my proposals on personal pensions . |
| 6 | Finally , at the risk of once more being accused of expressing my opinions in emotive terms , I believe that we in Scotland must seek , by whatever means possible , to establish a Scottish parliament . |
| 7 | I get my owls in various ways , too . |
| 8 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 9 | Radio waves are used rather than em waves of other wavelengths because over suitable wavelength ranges they readily penetrate planetary atmospheres and because natural emissions at such wavelengths tend to be weak thus enabling the echoes to be readily picked out from the natural background . |
| 10 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 11 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 12 | The thumb was out as I resolutely walked along the road shielding my eyes from oncoming lights and wistfully following the tails lights of cars that sailed by . |
| 13 | ’ I had to do extra rehearsals because I was new and she would daub my legs with methylated spirits and iodine . |
| 14 | My experiences of Young children |
| 15 | What er , is this not out of true , by my visits to various homes , and I 've been very impressed with the , the er , general conditions , the care , er , of the residents and everything else . |
| 16 | I must say that , despite my reservations in other areas , this guitar sounds beautiful . |
| 17 | I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor . |
| 18 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 19 | The only distinctive " province " , in the strict sense , that I have recognised in my studies of Mesozoic bracbiopods , is a somewhat vaguely defined equatorial belt . |
| 20 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 21 | Second , I had to pass all my examinations with top grades . |
| 22 | I sometimes dream of him : at times he enters my dreams with loving smiles , at times he is cold and indifferent , but we are always friends . |
| 23 | In summary : ‘ I 'll tell you what I think about your work and you try my suggestions for improving things . ’ |
| 24 | He 's not jealous of my flings with other men because he does n't have that fear . |
| 25 | At various times I have altered my charges on particular areas . |
| 26 | Using the freezer facility , can I put all my games on blank tapes to load faster ? |
| 27 | We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up . |
| 28 | As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life . |
| 29 | Milton gives us his own account of why he wrote his divorce tracts by saying ‘ When the Bishops could no longer resist the multitude of their assailants , I had leisure to turn my thoughts to other subjects . |
| 30 | I did n't mind ; it kept my thoughts off morbid fancies about Granny in her wooden box . |