Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't give me that stuff about children then . |
| 3 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 4 | Getting children talking about texts in groups after reading them is one way of giving them this power with texts . |
| 5 | Look , can you give me another couple of hours ? |
| 6 | I ca n't fit a cooker hood in my kitchen so can you give me some advice on extractors ? |
| 7 | Our Joe 's got 'is own farm in t'Canadas and there 's our Tamar , no better than she should be , and living like a queen . ’ |
| 8 | They both limit their coverage to Britain , and this has influenced my own selection of examples ; similar themes to those discussed do occur in other parts of the world . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 'm scared of my own squad in terms of numbers . |
| 10 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 11 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 12 | In my own research into books and reading I have had classes of 15-year-olds write essays on the subject of how they would feel about working in a bookshop . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got far too many in my own family for starters . |
| 14 | My own study of elephants had been restricted to reading the Just So stories , but I was only tagging along . |
| 15 | I 'm quite capable of making up my own mind on subjects like vegetarianism . |
| 16 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
| 17 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 18 | In the first three sections of this chapter we will outline the legal framework and organizational context in which each set of decisions is taken , and will also say something about the decision-makers themselves . |
| 19 | Describe the two sets of situations to which each set of techniques is appropriate , showing why this should be so . |
| 20 | Godoy , Prince of the Peace , was neither a reactionary nor a brutal tyrant ; indeed he was a mild progressive who consistently posed as the friend of enlightenment , earning for himself that hatred of priests and monks which contributed to his fall . |
| 21 | Ebussu'ud Efendi fixed the interval at which this Investiture of students as mulazims , called a might take place , namely once in seven years , though this interval was by no means always maintained in later times . |
| 22 | There are several ways in which this difference between names like ‘ metal ’ and those like ‘ white ’ can be marked . |
| 23 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
| 24 | Post : Date from which this Statement of Particulars is effective |
| 25 | The interest which this shift in police policy provoked was considerable . |
| 26 | Because of all this , there is a sense in which all assistance between relatives must be the subject of negotiations about when it is to be given , by whom , for how long , and on what terms . |
| 27 | This role is an important one in the county 's educational library provision , and as the administrative channel through which all ordering of materials passes , is pivotal to the project . |
| 28 | On 7 May , the Central Hall of the National Gallery reopens , richly restored as a farewell present from its former Chairman of Trustees , Lord Rothschild . |
| 29 | Many parents will also have shown by their own reading of newspapers , periodicals , lists , calendars , instructions and leaflets and by their sending and receiving of letters and cards that reading plays an important role in their daily lives . |
| 30 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |