Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 2 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 3 | But if motherhood is for them some sort of liberation , it is n't in the image of the " liberated lady " stereotype , Cosmo girl , sexy , single , childless and employed . |
| 4 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 5 | However , an equal number of players are working in situations were an ability to adapt to different musical landscapes enhances their earning power considerably , and for them this type of rig is a Godsend . |
| 6 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 7 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 8 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 9 | Financial deregulation , with its resultant mergers and reconstructions , has reduced LIFFE 's membership to under 200 firms which between them own shares in the Exchange . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 11 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 12 | You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ? |
| 13 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 14 | I love the very dark flowered ‘ Black Magic ’ , which did well for me last summer in a tub placed outside in a sunny , sheltered spot . |
| 15 | Nelson Mandela is the kind of celebrity that agents , publishers and film-makers dream of : a man whose seventieth birthday party filled Wembley , who outstrips Mother Theresa as a universal symbol of virtue and who has backstreets named after him 6,000 miles from home is not a difficult commodity to package . |
| 16 | Sulien Blount , on a piebald gelding , leading a brown cob on a rein , saddled ready for riding , and after him two grooms in attendance . |
| 17 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 18 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 19 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 20 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 21 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 22 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 23 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 24 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 25 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 26 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 27 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 28 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 29 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 30 | ‘ One of them nice ladies at Mrs P 's , middle floor , knitted it up . |