Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover of the children of the strangers … shall ye buy and of their families … and they shall be your possession . |
| 2 | But they are perfectly rational to the people who were interviewed and to their families . |
| 3 | To which Hermia later replies with the well-known plea of the young for understanding , ‘ I would my father looked but with my eyes ’ . |
| 4 | A defiance of its orders is a defiance of the state , in whose name the government alone may speak and for whose actions it must assume ultimate responsibility … |
| 5 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 6 | It recognized the need to rebuild the nation 's cities and to sweep away the old , guided by principles of economic , social and spiritual renewal , though there was no commitment yet to any one particular model of urban design and it was ignorant , so far , as to just how it would all be done and with what consequences . |
| 7 | After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another . |
| 8 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 9 | The keep of Rochester Castle , though ruined and with its floors missing , still gives a clear impression of what living in such keeps was like . |
| 10 | A Mersey Ambulance spokesman said : ‘ When we arrived , Mr Upton was dazed but on his feet . |
| 11 | While yours must grow but as their Masters please . |
| 12 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 13 | Both Reports proposed the establishment of national labour exchanges at which all unemployed workmen would be registered and to which vacancies would be notified . |
| 14 | Software will now be developed for the distribution of data in which individual , family , household and community level data can all be examined and in which relationships between levels can be analysed . |
| 15 | We would stress that although we can advise on the pros and cons of each offer , the final decision as to whether to proceed and with whom rests ultimately with Mature Business PLC 's shareholders . |
| 16 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 17 | This type of analysis and the problems revealed provide useful lines of enquiry towards unravelling the complexity of how village plans have developed and at what periods . |
| 18 | Upon its tangled groves ancient glamours lie and under its eaves creatures of legend still walk . |
| 19 | She 'd slip away to the kitchen for tea and be washed and in her nightclothes for seven , just long enough to kiss her daddy goodnight . |
| 20 | This situation is different from the condition in which the present studies were performed and in which pressures were recorded over long periods , with the patient not being asked to take swallows . |
| 21 | It is worthwhile for the band to keep some diary notes as to the studios they have used and on which days . |
| 22 | Oh they used to be ever so funny houses you know and in them days and The er you never used to see in the oh a lot of houses and you never used to see big windows like these . |
| 23 | Christian Aid supports many people like and in their efforts to overcome the effects of poverty in their everyday lives . |
| 24 | In modern marriage , then , both partners usually exercise free choice as to whom they marry and under what circumstances . |
| 25 | In his welcoming remarks Bush stressed that " the success of this summit depends not on the agreements we will sign but on our efforts to overcome division and discord , to build a world of peace in freedom " ; Gorbachev also highlighted the symbolic significance of the summit as marking the end of the " prejudice , mistrust and animosity " of the Cold War . |
| 26 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 27 | He does n't want to be executed and for his children to think he 's a murderer . |
| 28 | ‘ Indefinite ’ science is obviously extremely important , for without some understanding of what general shape a causal explanation should take and of what concepts it should use , it would not be possible to give a detailed , or ’ limited' , causal account of the particular causes of some particular effect . |
| 29 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 30 | The name Leconfield derives from Llecen-Fylliad , meaning ‘ the flat stone in the gloomy shade ’ , and its enclosed area was the sacred theatre in which rites of initiation into druidical mysteries were solemnized and in which aspirants performed their probationary noviciates . |