Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 2 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The sterling standard for silver ( 925 parts per thousand of silver with the remainder being mainly copper ) has its origins in the fourteenth century and has continued virtually without interruption to the present day . |
| 4 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school perhaps falls into a tradition of paternalistic state intervention in the cause of social welfare , which has its roots in the nineteenth century ; a tradition in which the values of the dominant class have been imposed on the poor for their own good , and in which the children of the poor have been removed to make a ‘ fresh start ’ in what were adjudged more favourable circumstances than those of their origins . |
| 6 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 7 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 8 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 10 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 11 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 12 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 13 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 14 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
| 15 | On Villa-Flotilla you have a chance to meet your companions in the first week . |
| 16 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 17 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 18 | In the meantime , feast your diaries on the first instalment . |
| 19 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 20 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 21 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 22 | The workers made their comments at the tenth anniversary conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions held last week in London . |
| 23 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 24 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 25 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 26 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 27 | Constant harassment and predation on their breeding grounds by fishermen reduced their stocks during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; the last individuals were killed by man in 1844 . |
| 28 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 29 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 30 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |