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 .
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