Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 3 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 4 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 5 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 6 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 7 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 8 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 9 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 10 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 11 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 12 | When interviewed by complaints department officers he made similar allegations about fabrication of admissions . |
| 13 | Now , firms do go bankrupt , we know that , er , but in this case , the sort of , of the thing they 're trading in , is , is far more precious than er , holidays abroad , or , or three piece suites you ordered six months ago , |
| 14 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 15 | When the referee sent off Richard Gough he did serious damage to Scotland 's World Cup hopes . |
| 16 | To examine the effects of differentiation on ATF1 protein levels we prepared nuclear extracts from UF9 and differentiated F9 ( DF9 ) cells and compared them using the blotting assay . |
| 17 | Yes I recall on Friday morning we had this discussion about the wording which you had in the er |
| 18 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 19 | Well I do n't know what this comes under but last or er last Saturday week I had several complaints about the old market square , you know where er and shop is . |
| 20 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 21 | On the stock list we found four carriages additional to the ones already mentioned , plus three trams , a luggage van and a BUT trolleybus , ex-London Transport , which saw service in Spain after trolleybus services ended in London . |
| 22 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 23 | Fishing into my green Marks & Spencer carrier bag I found some biscuits and an apple , some old sandwiches , which I threw into the water for the fish — and oh yes , there was still some dandelion wine left . |
| 24 | And to emphasise the elegant style of the Milchester house we chose hand-cut Stuart Crystal glassware . |
| 25 | This month I have the final part of the Creatures 2 solution , the second half of the Blues Brothers solution I printed last month , and lots more . |
| 26 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy got a dressing down yesterday — for failing to return a £400 robe he borrowed 14 months ago . |
| 27 | I know that after the suicide of her friend Maud Geddes she destroyed all Maud 's letters , and all her own when they were sent back to her . |
| 28 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 29 | From Blackburn Rovers he signed outside-right Joe Hulme , said to be the fastest footballer in the game and famed for his accurate centres while running . |
| 30 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |