Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 2 | Well no , they take them to go with the horses . |
| 3 | You do n't want them to go to the police , do you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 5 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 6 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 7 | They talked nonsense until there was sufficient calm in the stalls and circle to allow them to continue with the lines as written in the script . |
| 8 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 9 | The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you kindly explain to me why you have allowed a confidential document belonging to me to fall into the hands of a junior member of my staff ? ’ |
| 11 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 12 | Okay , suppose Come Up And See Me goes in the charts and they ring you up and say , ‘ Steve , how do you fancy going on Top Of The Pops ? ’ |
| 13 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 14 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 15 | Again it 's too complicated for me to go into the details of this . |
| 16 | In addition to alerting subjects to the fact that the experiment was concerned with subjective risk , this may have caused them to attend to the stimuli in ways which unnaturally stressed risk-related aspects of the situations . |
| 17 | Cool as you like , Paul bloody Lexington has asked me to sit in the wings for the entire run of this play and feed Micky Banks his lines ! ’ |
| 18 | Oi Dan I 've got ta , I 've got ta play you , I 've got ta play you later on of me apologizing to the Norwegians . |
| 19 | We would also not want them to fall into the hands of children . ’ |
| 20 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 21 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
| 22 | Computers do not have the knowledge and experience of the average human reader , so for them to cope with the ambiguities shown above they need to have access to repositories of the different sorts of knowledge . |
| 23 | Sleep-deprived subjects , however , improve their performance on the five-choice when subjected to white noise , as if arousal level in their cases was being raised sufficiently to allow them to cope with the demands of the task . |
| 24 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |
| 25 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 26 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 28 | But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property . |
| 29 | Sensations rushed in : the cries of the traders in the street below them mixed with the screams of the swallows that swished low across the roofs ; the dark aroma of the strong coffee mingled with the fresh smell of the bread . |
| 30 | Everything about it has helped me to grapple with the intricacies of machine knitting in this , my second year . |