Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives them total protection against rain and wind , without weight or bulk , while remaining breathable so that their perspiration is n't trapped inside . |
| 2 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 3 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 4 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 5 | This will allow them unparalleled access to German and northern European markets . |
| 6 | I had a hand-tooled Mexican handbag with me that day in court . |
| 7 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 8 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 9 | Give me that piece of paper you were reading , Axl . |
| 10 | Teacher : [ To an Asian boy ] Could you get me that piece of chalk . |
| 11 | And for people accompanued by small children , there is a unique automatic baby listening service to give them complete peace of mind while enjoying their stay . |
| 12 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 13 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 14 | Yeah , no I 'm putting them that way on top of each other . |
| 15 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 16 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 17 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 18 | The training officer would issue them due warnings at interview : " This is a cut-throat business . |
| 19 | Teachers preparing for examinations … will find them rich sources of information . |
| 20 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |
| 21 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 22 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 23 | I 'll give them some cheese on toast . |
| 24 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 25 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 26 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 27 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 28 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 29 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 30 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |