Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Performances like this prove we are not as flimsy as people think . ’ |
| 2 | We have n't seen any moorhens at all have we ? |
| 3 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 4 | It is essentially a matter of looking into all the factual issues which one believes likely to affect one 's attitudes on the issue , or which are likely to affect the attitudes of those debating it with one . |
| 5 | And she 's had rats under that shed it ai n't that long ago she said , she said she had them so I mean I ca n't see anybody with an ounce of common sense letting a chicken being on the ground , ground |
| 6 | We are used to clashes between , for instance , justice and mercy on the human scene , between duties to those near us and to those further away , between all our duties to others and the claims of our own development and so forth . |
| 7 | I do n't think you wish us to tamper with the microphones at all do you ? |
| 8 | At times like that do you despair , turn to drink to try and coax back the muse ? |
| 9 | ‘ When you get louts like this advising you on your scripts and your films , you live in a state of complete frustration rather than actual fear . |
| 10 | Supplying engines to projects like this lets us compete with the supercars and avoid all the complicated polemics they create , ’ said Reitzle . |
| 11 | Free pre-school places for those wishing it remains the main plank of Labour 's education policy and would eat up the vast majority of the extra £4 million the party would spend while still staying within Government capping levels . |
| 12 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 13 | They 've had plenty of reason to , to mar put up a marker in the three weeks and we 've spent the next three or four weeks after that discussing it . |
| 14 | The implications of this astonished me . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Mrs Phelps said , ‘ that public libraries like this allow you to borrow books and take them home ? ’ |
| 16 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 17 | put the figures for that do they ? |
| 18 | That they ask you specific questions of that naming it 's a multi-choice more importantly in your written answers you will have to in , you are expected to include and correct systematic ohms for any organics that you deal with . |
| 19 | Another source said a study would assess the viability of the pit and the qualities of those operating it separately . |
| 20 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 21 | Things like that made them really cagey , hence I was always having to lob people out of the shop if they looked like they were examining the clothes too closely . |
| 22 | Do n't often er get things like that do you ? |
| 23 | It was things like that gave you the feeling he had no use for white men or our ways . |
| 24 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 25 | God , when things like that happen I just feel like shouting I Want To Work in a very loud voice . |
| 26 | Things like this made him feel his age . |
| 27 | They do n't mean no harm , but when things like this happen they get all shot . |
| 28 | And if , if they do they do things at half measure it 's more likely to be crushed I would 've thought . |
| 29 | There are 23 raffle prizes and our MC goes through them all with full details of those donated them — a cool 30 minutes . |
| 30 | The tiny white fruiting bodies of this provide them with their food . |