Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
2 | I had doubts about that cover when I saw it because someone on seeing the flag would think it 's a political novel , whereas it 's not . |
3 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
4 | I always knew there was somefink a bit fishy about that bloke when 'e lodged wiv Florrie . |
5 | I just worry about that song because I do n't wan na be any part of kids thinking drugs are cooler than they are , 'cos they 're not for everybody . |
6 | Now do you know , could you do me a favour and tell Wendy about that gust because she 's just just sending them off . |
7 | What about that pension if you want to pack up before ? |
8 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
9 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
10 | But what would happen about that loan if you were unable to meet the repayments ? |
11 | But what would happen about that loan if you were unable to meet the repayments ? |
12 | I kept thinking about that reception as I drove blissfully home . |
13 | I knew nothing about that deal until I played some recent demos of the things that eventually became ‘ Workbook ’ . |
14 | Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each . |
15 | We 're all pulling for each other because we 've all grown up together — from the youth team to the reserves and the first team . |
16 | Wills II possessed no less than 30 silver trowels , one for each occasion when he laid the foundation stone of a Nonconformist chapel . |
17 | Clifford always insisted that there must be a real ‘ conversion ’ for each individual although he also thought that the belief in individualism had been pushed too far both in the Church and in society . |
18 | So I suppose what you do with Debs is er tell them you want the whole discount and I suppose they give you a card for each floor cos you ca n't walk around with it each floor can you ? |
19 | Make a secret WP test for each character as they enter the area . |
20 | Again , make a secret WP test for each character as they enter here . |
21 | Do n't forget to make your chart for each day as you go along . |
22 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
23 | Each inventoried object is the direct responsibility of a named curator , the collecting officer , who signs a formal declaration of responsibility for each object when it is acquired . |
24 | But he shrugs and says : ‘ We just do our best and prepare as well as possible for each game as it comes . |
25 | Fokine was the first choreographer to distinguish the need for a particular style for each ballet when he created such different ballets as Les Sylphides , Le Carnaval , Prince Igor , The Firebird and Petrushka . |
26 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
27 | We both draw inferences about each other as we order our perceptions into tidy links . |
28 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
29 | And over the sounds of Duvall 's pistol shots , a deafening punctuation to the sounds of the beast and the storm , Cardiff could hear Duvall spitting out words between each shot as he descended . |
30 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |