Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And I think I 'll stop right there with even more comments , erm , in case I lose that contract too . |
2 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
3 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
4 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
5 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
6 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
7 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
8 | I refer my honourable friends to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
9 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
10 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
11 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
12 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
13 | After the programme I spend several hours just going round the wards chatting to the patients and collecting requests for my Sunday show . |
14 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
15 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
16 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
17 | He also found two more lumps in my groin and immediately booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital for the biopsy I had five days ago . |
18 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
19 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
20 | Most telling of all are the three ‘ drug ’ songs which sign this selection off . |
21 | Talks have also been held with the Darlington Society of Friends and the Churches Housing Association which has small developments nearby . |
22 | In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance . |
23 | at Mansfield which had two stations then , Great Central and the old London , Midland , Scottish , which was one of my delights anyway , engines were , er they were to me . |
24 | ‘ Thou shalt conform ’ , is the new commandment of the national organizations which dominate high streets all over Britain . |
25 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
26 | Bauen enjoys an unexpectedly mild climate thanks to a sunny situation and also to its openness to the Fohn wind which brings Mediterranean warmth down from the Gotthard in spring . |
27 | It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement . |
28 | There is a line from a familiar hymn which captures this idea very well : ‘ A second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came . ’ |
29 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
30 | Yes we had a meeting a few weeks ago to discuss the future and it was agreed that we should have three issues a year rather than four , I think this would be welcomed by local police stations got ta change the dates to act on market research which indicates certain months when certain security devices sell well . |