Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 2 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 3 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 4 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 5 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 6 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 8 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 9 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 10 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 11 | Too often businessmen through reticence or unawareness neglect the resources available to them through the local banks and the purpose of this short article is to draw their attention to the servies and assistance available . |
| 12 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 13 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 14 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 15 | If I continue then with some introductory remarks erm on policy H one a and one A , perhaps that would set the scene er for the discussion , then Mr will very briefly erm look at the differences as he sees them between the two sets erm of projections . |
| 16 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 17 | Yes , I was possessed , but happy to be so , if it allowed me to be with him , to feel him near me for a few hours every day . |
| 18 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 19 | Do n't you think you can manage to stop needling me for a few hours ? ’ |
| 20 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 22 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 23 | It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’ |
| 24 | Sister said she had no work for me for a few minutes , so I could direct traffic for her whilst she had a few words with Dr Jones . |
| 25 | ‘ That is , if you do n't mind being in the same room as me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then there 's no reason why you should n't come and sit with me for a few minutes . |
| 27 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 29 | " Hazel , " said Fiver , " could you come up on the bank with me for a few moments ? |
| 30 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |