Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been arguing the point with the inspector at claims branch for many many months and we just seem to go round in circles . |
| 2 | Further still , despite their gaps , Eadmer 's History and Anselm 's letters together allow a remarkably complete account of royal and papal negotiations and political vicissitudes to be given for these few years . |
| 3 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |
| 4 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 5 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 6 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 7 | At my urging , he asked for some more photographs as I was keen on the idea of this spotlessly clean , ruthlessly attractive family in their Nordic pine kitchen . |
| 8 | While class-based information does not exist for all those students who fail to gain work after graduating from a YTS , the conclusion about how the scheme operates in the case of black youths is probably equally valid with respect to white youths without qualifications coming from poor , unskilled , working-class homes . |
| 9 | The collaboration between Nicholson and Hellman was to continue for two more pictures . |
| 10 | Belle Vue Cottage is very conveniently situated for all these amenities and a distinct frisson of excitement ran through the community when it became known that Hannah Hauxwell was the new owner . |
| 11 | They passed through several more doors . |
| 12 | I 've always maintained the analogy that working with Fleetwood Mac was like movie making , because you have an idea , but to get from point A to point B you 've got to go through all these steps . |
| 13 | We had to go through all those invoices , regardless of what we found . |
| 14 | I mean after all these years here I mean you ca n't well that 's |
| 15 | Remarried after all these decades |
| 16 | Barker 's poetry , however , is largely of a different order : rebellious , mad , hortatory , and still singing after all these years . |
| 17 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 18 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 19 | Now , in the conditions of 1920 in Soviet Russia , to write about all those things that industry could supply to agriculture was the ‘ music of the future ’ and the reality was that coercion was the main means of provisioning the towns . |
| 20 | I hope to write about both these accessories in more detail in a later article . |
| 21 | Finally add the courgette , cover , and cook for 2 more minutes . |
| 22 | Cook for 2 more mins then add the lemon juice , mint and parsley and season generously . |
| 23 | ‘ It saves you weaving through all those tables and chairs , ’ Kolchinsky replied . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , of course , there are his heavy duties as librarian — checking through all those magazines to make sure they 're intact takes a fair bit of time . |
| 25 | Well smokers all clear or not I do n't know but th that even mentioned in that book Downham Reach and that talk about the Priory Farm where was cos that was all walking about all these smugglers at that time but the book I , the history I thought about do n't seem the same in the book now . |
| 26 | Berkeley held , as we have seen , that an abstract general idea is simply an idea of a particular thing used to stand for other such ideas ; and it is clear that what Hume applauds is Berkeley 's refusal to accept any ideas other than those of immediate and concrete experience . |
| 27 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 28 | Life clangs and swings and scrapes with all these buckets and pails . |
| 29 | A light that radiates out from its source can dissolve personal limits , blending with other such pools of light to form a greater circle . |
| 30 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |