Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shouted something at me or at his dogs , I do n't even now know which , and was gone into the night . |
| 2 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 3 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 4 | Famous brand names include Coca Cola , Biro and Hoover , all of which have become synonymous with certain categories of products , whether produced by them or by their competitors . |
| 5 | If this is an alternative , let it be aired before it is too late to act , for the quality for life of ourselves and for our children rests upon our careful deliberation and action now : We can no longer afford the luxury of complacency and continuous contingency reactions |
| 6 | While it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound formative effect upon the beliefs we have about ourselves and upon our expectations of others , most of us fail to take them into account when we run into trouble later on in life . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 8 | The first line is the voice of one man talking either to himself or to his friends — |
| 9 | Its primary value is obtained from the appraisal of a manager 's performance , either by the manager himself or by his superiors . |
| 10 | This , indeed , is the most common defence of Derrida , whether advanced by himself or by his disciples . |
| 11 | Taken off by it in an acute , short , not often painful illness , the old man escapes those ‘ cold gradations of decay ’ so distressing to himself and to his friends . ’ |
| 12 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 13 | The task of the teacher within the primary school is essentially to be a creative initiator of situations from which and in which children will learn . |
| 14 | Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people . |
| 15 | By this time , Pointy-Beard was out from under me and on his knees . |
| 16 | The first days and weeks of my new job were difficult both for me and for my employers , because my English , when it came to the test , was still very elementary . |
| 17 | If so , by whom and for what offences ? |
| 18 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 19 | That framework shapes the broad conditions in which they operate and more specifically lays down both what is expected of them and under what circumstances and with what resources they go about achieving those goals . |
| 20 | The cosy solution of bourgeois educational success in which the sole objective was not to be a loser , was abruptly shattered by the realisation that the majority of men and women were , like his father , losers , and that to turn one 's back on them and on his origins in a strategy of personal self-survival , was an inadequate response . |
| 21 | And although we may concentrate attention on teachers ' socially regulated selves , " their own descriptions of their feelings about pupils , and their relationships with them and with their colleagues remind us that the regressive , passionate and unruly aspects of human nature are always present in the classroom and may sometimes escape from rational control " ( 1989 : 203 ) . |
| 22 | In the days when hummingbird feathers were fashionable costume accessories , the plumage hunters of Trinidad used to imitate the hooting of owls to draw the unfortunate hummingbirds towards them and to their deaths . |
| 23 | Certainly I pay tribute to them and to their colleagues from other countries . |
| 24 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 25 | Powerful voluntary organisations such as MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ) and the Spastics Society have helped to raise political and public awareness of the needs of children with disabilities and have fought hard and on the whole successfully to secure better services for them and for their families . |
| 26 | Michael Morpurgo , speaking as an ex-teacher as well as an author , supported Mr Rosen with a series of vehement statements which reflected a passionate commitment to the independence of teachers to choose books that were right for them and for their pupils . |
| 27 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 28 | The starting point of the process is an evaluation of what documents your organisation produces , how it currently produces them and in what quantities . |
| 29 | It is not enough that a state is unlucky or incompetent in its economic , social or foreign policies — that jobs or food are scarce , or that it is at war with itself or with its neighbours . |
| 30 | Choose a business in your area which interests you and about whose products or services you would like to know more . |