Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 2 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 3 | erm it is n't a problem just for Hereford or for this country it 's an international problem which has evoked interest over the whole world . |
| 4 | As I battled my way over or through each obstacle I 'd think I 'll be ahead of him after this — he 'll never manage this one . |
| 5 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 6 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 7 | Presumably after that we w or on that date we 'll start to get phone calls ? |
| 8 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 9 | His knowledge of these people and his influence with them , was due to his own efforts — or at any rate they were nothing to do with these employers . |
| 10 | Head of Department : ‘ I 've achieved , or at any rate I 'm likely to , a position of authority . |
| 11 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 12 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 13 | He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them . |
| 14 | Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed . |
| 15 | For example , suppose that for some reason you wish to remember a long list of dissociated objects such as aeroplane , alarm clock , carrot , television , etc . |
| 16 | The other is that for some reason you 've been too scared to let anyone close enough . ’ |
| 17 | She knew that for some reason it was important for Jasper to have it from her . |
| 18 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 19 | ‘ So her father must have been a canon , ’ said Mark , though he felt that for some reason it was the canon 's widow who cut more ice here . |
| 20 | Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that since the beginning of the recession unemployment in Wales has increased by more than 38,000 , and that during that period he has brought forward not one new policy to help the economy ? |
| 21 | He stated that during this period he was interrogated and beaten on a daily basis . |
| 22 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 23 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 24 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 25 | What happened was that after each death she would go through a process of remembering the scenes of illness and death . |
| 26 | ‘ I just hope that after that build-up I 've lived up to my reputation ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sure that after this weekend you will have no problem in breaking all Lucas Sales 's previous records on this contract . |
| 28 | He believed that with such experience she would not have resisted the orders of her assailant . |
| 29 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 30 | I asked our education correspondent , Mike Baker , to list some of the topics he felt that with more space they could cover properly . |