Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 2 | what , what I hope we 'll do next week is to , is to take that idea up and to see maybe why this policy came through erm and we 'll look at the , like the arithmetic of that as to , as to how much money there was , how much land there was in fact . |
| 3 | The republican newspaper says it will publish next week the names of informants and further details of the operations , which it said were conducted initially without the knowledge of the Bonn government . |
| 4 | It will hold stock and spares and says it could get first machines as early as September from its US parent . |
| 5 | I reckon they should have next year a long weekend |
| 6 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 7 | But complaints from neighbours means it must close next week . |
| 8 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 9 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 10 | However the offices were closed so he said he would call first thing in the morning . |
| 11 | GREEN SHOOTS of recovery were what the Chancellor said he could see last year , but the rest of us are still waiting for them . |