Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 2 | A British voter aggrieved by being denied choice among candidates on party lists should ask himself just how much choice among candidates of the same party he is allowed under our present system and how much he would be allowed under the STV . |
| 3 | Ines Oppenheimer comments : ‘ I actually think I have had a more interesting career as a result of the many changes I have made . |
| 4 | I blush in light of the many times we have floundered recently , not to mention my straying . |
| 5 | Coetzee recalls the shooting with the same clarity he brings to all his recollections , consulting his meticulous police notebooks and diaries . |
| 6 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |
| 7 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |
| 8 | If then any acts of animals are analogous to human acts and spring from the same principles we have duties towards the animals because thus we cultivate the corresponding duties towards human beings . |
| 9 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 10 | We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio . |
| 11 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 12 | I stride over and take her by the shoulders in the same way I held Darius . |
| 13 | In a television interview on the same day he acknowledged that the officials who had allowed Habash to enter France had made an " error of judgement " by treating the matter as " routine " . |
| 14 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 15 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 16 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 17 | He cut a dashing figure at the many conferences he addressed , raising his hand from time to time to stroke his dark curly locks as he poured out pure reason in soft well-modulated tones with a sincerity that was almost painful . |
| 18 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 19 | Picton-Howell 's main mission in life was to record faithfully the minutes of the many meetings she attended . |
| 20 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 21 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 22 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 23 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 24 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 25 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 26 | It is usual to use boards large enough to reach from the floor to the ceiling as the fewer joints you have the smoother the wall finish will be . |
| 27 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 28 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 29 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 30 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |