Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 2 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 3 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 5 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 6 | Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms . |
| 7 | These do not reflect activity from the eyes individually , but between them the two channels will record an eye movement in any direction . |
| 8 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 9 | Between them the four countries have some 144,000 elephants . |
| 10 | Between them the light-armed men-at-arms formed smaller companies with room to manoeuvre at need , and the knights and cavalry , visible in snatches of blazonry and colour against the dun-coloured slopes , were drawn back somewhat higher in three squadrons . |
| 11 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |
| 12 | Between them the 16-year-old schoolboys wrote their way to 20 straight As between them . |
| 13 | Between them the three sons held title to most of Henry II 's kingdom — but title only . |
| 14 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 15 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 16 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 17 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 18 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 19 | MARK Thatcher was facing a big tax increase last night after his the Swiss-based bosses reportedly ended his £80,000 contract six months early . |
| 20 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 21 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 22 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 23 | I can still see in each of them the special qualities which made me select them . |
| 24 | Below her the muttering sunflowers continued their ghostly and invisible movement . |
| 25 | He tossed the packet towards her a few moments later . |
| 26 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 27 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 28 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 29 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
| 30 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |