Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill 's story has finally convinced me of one thing — the nature of Mandy Smith 's ‘ mystery illness ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ To be fair , it 's a hell of an act to follow when you consider Gordon has already led us to two championships in the space of three seasons . |
| 3 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 4 | The Board originally offered three years , and has now increased it to five . |
| 5 | Oscar has n't employed you for twenty-five years and kept his counsel . ’ |
| 6 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 7 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 8 | This week , he was relief-managing a pub in Rotherham and I 'd arranged to drive over to see him after 11 p.m . |
| 9 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 10 | Imagine still doing it at forty ! ’ |
| 11 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 12 | Cos people are geared up to see you at seven o'clock . |
| 13 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 14 | Hamilton was in his second term at Wigan , having also managed them in 1985–86 . |
| 15 | Well I 'm coming back to see you in two weeks ' time so could I maybe get the information off you then ? |
| 16 | I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . |
| 17 | " Sure , " said Fielding , and went on to tell me about two Southern actors called Sod MacGonagall and Fart Klaeber . |
| 18 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 19 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 20 | In 1640 he was given the minor office of master of the Posts , but did not retain it beyond 1641 , at the end of which year he suffered a short spell of prison for alleged defiance of a parliamentary order . |
| 21 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 22 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
| 23 | He did not accept it until 1909 when he became its proclaimed prophet . |
| 24 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 25 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 26 | Like because their account , you know , if you write , like if I wrote a cheque out to you today , and you did n't cash it for four weeks |
| 27 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to get beyond the hype and because I suspect the real reason behind the criticisms of the leader of the opposition is because the chief executive did n't invite him on one or two of these trips , because |
| 28 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 29 | Went past the garden , they did n't find her for thirty minutes the little girl ! |
| 30 | She did n't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall . |