Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also add to that that I think such work would help us in terms of targeting more effectively the existing resources we have in terms of service delivery . |
| 2 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 3 | But then it was this I thought any minute it 's gon na be Somewhere over the Rainbow . |
| 4 | So but I think with this I mean this homework , that 's the only thing I do n't believe in because they 've got ta revise it which is brilliant , I mean , at the moment but they also give them three hours homework a night ! |
| 5 | By this I mean any process or phenomenon that involves a mapping of two or more elements . |
| 6 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 7 | After this I bought some contact magazines . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't want to start crowing because we 're not up there yet , but if we keep on like this I believe this side can make a challenge . ’ |
| 9 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 10 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 11 | Yet the war goes on and more arrivals — veterans of the Khmer Rouge , the South Vietnamese army , the Salvadorean death squads — come to replace the lucky few who make enough money to escape the war of Los Angeles . |
| 12 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 13 | While some prodigies struggle without the right challenges and others burn out on reaching university , there are a few who face another obstacle — parental jealousy . |
| 14 | Currie ( 1987 ) has noted that there are some who maintain that policy is turning full circle back into a fully discretionary mode . |
| 15 | Some who follow this line of thinking argue that if there is a form of learning wrapped up in ‘ higher learning ’ , it is learning how to learn . |
| 16 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 17 | she done some she done some chocolate cake and she put in er chocolate icing . |
| 18 | George Will , a political commentator of rarefied taste , is another who thinks that sport should be taken seriously . |
| 19 | You swore to destroy my father and take his castle when he refused your offer for Alice — ‘ t was evil , but no worse than many another who coveted another man 's property . |
| 20 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 21 | Do n't this we need This page is unlikely to be . |
| 22 | If we insert equation ( 20 ) into this we obtain This equation applies to the combustion of one mole of methane gas under standard conditions as specified by the equation in the previous example . |
| 23 | As far as awful games go this one takes some beating . |
| 24 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 25 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 26 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |
| 27 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 28 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 29 | These eddies seem to be a product of the upward convection in the troposphere , and their energy source is therefore that which drives this convection . |
| 30 | As with most classifications of natural phenomena the exact forms of which are governed by the interactions of continuously variable sets of conditions , the classification can be as complex as one likes and the only non-controversial classification is that which puts each reef in a class of its own . |