Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 2 | Fifty percent of you will die of heart attacks , twenty plus will die of cancer , and ten percent will die of strokes . |
| 3 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 4 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |
| 5 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 6 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 7 | In the past , the Americans opposed the idea of a Palestinian state : there was not enough room , they said ; and , given independence , the people in it might break their promise to be nice to Israel . |
| 8 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 9 | If we work as well together in 1993 as we did in ‘ 92 Pest Control and the people in it will continue to prosper and this coming year will be another success story . |
| 10 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 11 | The patient 's attitude to you and other people around him can change dramatically because of his stroke or head injury . |
| 12 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 13 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 14 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 15 | The lyrics are left solely to Brett , while the pair of them will spend hours together finely tuning Bernard 's musical ideas . |
| 16 | ‘ You flatter me , both of you , ’ he said , and again Julia was amazed that the pair of them could appear so cheerful . |
| 17 | The pair of you could live here and look after me in my dotage . ’ |
| 18 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |