Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Th there , there 's a minu a minute example , erm , in fact it 's probably more effective in some ways , than the great fora , forum , in which you have larger assemblies of people who enjoy th the hours , during the course of the day , but often do n't go away and do anything . |
2 | They are daytime hunters , flying with their six legs crooked in front of them to form a tiny basket in which they catch smaller insects . |
3 | Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures . |
4 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
5 | No you you draw lower branches off the off here |
6 | Like you we need larger premises . |
7 | Wicca followers , like the Canaanites , visualise their gods as images of animals or horned gods , thus breaking the second commandment of the group with whom they seek closer ties ( Exodus 20:4 ) . |
8 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |