Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 2 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 3 | Confused by her rebellious attitude , David himself had cleaned up the kitchen behind his stepfather , and so the pattern was set . |
| 4 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 5 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 6 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 7 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 8 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |
| 9 | A recent example of a study which attempts to single out a speaker variable of this general type is Holmquist 's ( 1985 ) account of the influence of political orientation on patterns of language variation in a small , homogeneous Spanish-speaking community . |
| 10 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 11 | Those schools which had built up a good resource collection appeared to have allocated additional capitation to the school library or to have raised extra funds from other sources . |
| 12 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 13 | Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification . |
| 14 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 15 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 16 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 17 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 18 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 20 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 21 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 22 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 23 | Over his pyjamas he had put on a new Fair Isle pullover which had been his mother 's Christmas present . |
| 24 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 25 | In other words it chooses to move up the Phillips curve from point A to a point such as point B which corresponds to its new perception of the ‘ optimal ’ unemployment inflation pair . |
| 26 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 27 | The recruits themselves have taken on a new air of self-confidence . |
| 28 | A £19.95 investment in a Blackjack putter is the catalyst which has brought about a change in fortune for Davies . |
| 29 | A conference inspired by Beyond the Fragments , was held in Leeds in September 1980 — the first major Right-On gathering after the election which had ushered in the then relatively unknown doctrine of Thatcherism . |
| 30 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |