Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office has asked through the Scottish Education Department that we write to all governing bodies in Scotland reminding them of the difficulties created by urgent requests for naturalisation shortly before international sporting events .
2 He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . "
3 And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others .
4 But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones .
5 She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers .
6 Do n't throw them at the windows .
7 She leaned in and pecked me on the lips .
8 ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’
9 I would like to see them for the Falls .
10 to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum .
11 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
12 It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind .
13 We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here .
14 The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission .
15 ‘ You 're about as grown up as … as Just William , with all this leering , these smutty innuendoes , just because you happened to see me with no clothes on ! ’
16 Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds .
17 At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with .
18 He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake .
19 There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it .
20 I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot .
21 ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot .
22 ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot .
23 His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth .
24 ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants .
25 He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted .
26 A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries .
27 ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry .
28 And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs .
29 Sell them to the knackers yard .
30 Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert .
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