Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one .
2 My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa .
3 Two months later we pushed off to Paris and , except for one little episode , the journey went well .
4 But less than six months later he fought back with a Commons performance that impressed the House and Prime Minister Harold Wilson …
5 Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC .
6 Well fo a at sixteen I went into the department that built the machines and er I was , I think it was bell was going for lunchtime and a lad come by says hello Taffy how you going on in here ?
7 Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions .
8 No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went .
9 Rosie cringed and showed the whites of her eyes when she looked up at her master .
10 Captain Freddie said he could hardly believe his eyes when he looked out of his bedroom window .
11 In the 50th minute Logan made amends when he burst on to Stewart 's pop-up pass and touched down at the posts for the stand-off to convert .
12 Not easy if the target had hold of both the kids when he came out of the taxi .
13 In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo .
14 What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month
15 Her career began in Detroit where she sat in with Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie and on moving to New York she became the most important vocal interpreter of Parker 's music .
16 That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want .
17 It 's funny actually cos I thought this is the first Saturday when we vegged out to .
18 And having spoken to her on Saturday when she came along to the energy conservation stall I intend to invite her if it 's alright with the meeting to our next meeting which is on the ninth of February to discuss how the Greens can help how the University Greens can help us with that demonstration .
19 He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it .
20 Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see .
21 Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out .
22 Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days .
23 Like so many times before , he had gone to the window where he stared out across the night sky , his thoughts a million miles away .
24 Fearless and aggressive , Jack become one of Palace 's youngest captains when he took over as skipper in 1956 , his determination and enthusiasm admirably suiting him for the role .
25 Half-an-hour later it takes off with swift darting flight and rapid wing beats .
26 Two days later he went out with the Albrighton Hunt to celebrate .
27 Two days later he reported back for training .
28 A few days later I came back to England .
29 I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels .
30 ‘ But at the moment whenever I go back to Melbourne after being abroad it seems homelier every time .
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