Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I end up feeling sorry for him every time I watch it |
| 2 | That 's er here you are young William and that should get rid of that for you no bother at all . |
| 3 | It will be nice if you could get somebody to do this for you every day would n't it ? |
| 4 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 5 | Why , are they some of them a bit |
| 6 | and some of them a bit it 's all sales talk |
| 7 | " That 'll give some of them a surprise , wo n't it ? " |
| 8 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 9 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 10 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |
| 11 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
| 12 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
| 13 | One of the more spectacular sites is in Gregory , Texas , where some 4 million tonnes of bauxite are kept in dumps , some of them the height of a six storey building . |
| 14 | Weather permitting , though , there is to be a full-scale balloon launch with hot air — some of it no doubt coming from a ‘ Balloon debate ’ and a ‘ Question time ’ session . |
| 15 | We 're all as the good Lord made us and some of us a sight worse . |
| 16 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |
| 17 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
| 18 | What 's wrong with us the way we are ? |
| 19 | High above him a hawk hung like a pendulum . |
| 20 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 21 | Without his fedora his hairline was receding , and the clothe was wrong on him the way a trench coat had been right . |
| 22 | For some reason not clear to me a theory has developed and is reflected in many decided cases to the effect that where the architect has agreed or is required to act fairly he becomes what has often been called a quasi-arbitrator … |
| 23 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 24 | Employers will , of course , want to make clear to you the level of personal responsibility you will be expected to take within the remit of your job description ( for a sample job description , see chapter 2 ) , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are trying to warn off the less confident . |
| 25 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 26 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 27 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |
| 28 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 29 | Inside , there were four sheets of paper , each of them a photocopy of a newspaper cutting . |
| 30 | Again the Mirror could have offered each of them a solution that would have saved them time and money . |