Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed some change so I got two sausage rolls , I 'm gon na wire them up on microwave in a bit right ? |
| 2 | I mean there 's a , there was a programme on I watched last night , on the sea or ? |
| 3 | Less than three months later he had another announcement : he would be returning to Williams in 1991 . |
| 4 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 5 | Six months ago we reported interim results , fifty eight percent down on the previous year but held out hope for a stronger performance in the second half , in the event our os optimism was justified . |
| 6 | Eighteen months ago I took early retirement . |
| 7 | When she finally left six months ago I closed this house up and rented the Copenhagen apartment . |
| 8 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 9 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 10 | And she said you 'll never guess Angie how we had two fellas tried to latch on to us . |
| 11 | Power was conferred upon the chief officer of police to impose conditions on the holding of public processions where he had reasonable grounds to believe that serious public disorder was likely to ensue from the holding of a procession . |
| 12 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 13 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 14 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 15 | DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 16 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 17 | ROBERT ALNER continued his relentless progress towards taking The Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship at Portman on Saturday when he rode three winners and now leads Philip Scholfield — who was restricted to one success at the Dartmoor — by 22 to 13 . |
| 18 | When we looked at the lighter and darker areas separately we found considerable differences . |
| 19 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 20 | Only ten feet later she touched firm ground again . |
| 21 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 22 | Antrim is indicated by gravity measurements and has been explored by the Larne-2 geothermal test well which encountered 9395 ft of Permo-Triassic sediments without reaching their base . |
| 23 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |
| 24 | In fact he never visited England where he had many daughters ; there was much delegation . |
| 25 | Keats when he wrote that poem and was lost in his immaterial dream breathed the same intoxicating air as Einstein did , and both knew the same profound excitement and sublime delight . |
| 26 | The victim was taken to the Royal Infirmary where he received 20 stitches . |
| 27 | Devine improved for the fourth time this winter when he reached 64.40 metres at a meeting in Melbourne . |
| 28 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 29 | A few weeks later they were taken away from Pushkin , away from St Petersburg and the European side of Russia where they had many supporters . |
| 30 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |