Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 3 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 4 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 5 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 6 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 7 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 8 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 9 | Yes I recall on Friday morning we had this discussion about the wording which you had in the er |
| 10 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know what this comes under but last or er last Saturday week I had several complaints about the old market square , you know where er and shop is . |
| 12 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 13 | On the stock list we found four carriages additional to the ones already mentioned , plus three trams , a luggage van and a BUT trolleybus , ex-London Transport , which saw service in Spain after trolleybus services ended in London . |
| 14 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 15 | Fishing into my green Marks & Spencer carrier bag I found some biscuits and an apple , some old sandwiches , which I threw into the water for the fish — and oh yes , there was still some dandelion wine left . |
| 16 | And to emphasise the elegant style of the Milchester house we chose hand-cut Stuart Crystal glassware . |
| 17 | This month I have the final part of the Creatures 2 solution , the second half of the Blues Brothers solution I printed last month , and lots more . |
| 18 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy got a dressing down yesterday — for failing to return a £400 robe he borrowed 14 months ago . |
| 19 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 20 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
| 21 | At the National Gallery 's new sumptuous shop in the Sainsbury Wing I recorded three books on Gwen John ( and none on Augustus , her brother ) , two on Artemisia Gentileschi ( one being the very scholarly and feminist monograph by Mary D Garrard , published by Princeton University Press , now in paperback ) , one book on Rosalba Carriera , and most surprisingly given the feminist industry around this artist , only one on Mary Cassatt . |
| 22 | At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened . |
| 23 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 24 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the research on The Child Wants a Home project we noted more flexibility in the way in which placements were effected . |
| 26 | A director of a modern dance company , Bill T. Jones , a black American , is continuing the dance company he founded 20 years ago with his companion Arnie Zane , who died of AIDS in 1988 . |
| 27 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 28 | Within a fortnight of coming back to her council house she woke one morning to find all the house 's utilities had failed . |
| 29 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 30 | On Monday evening he gave fair warning of an increase in taxes , and spending cuts to reduce the expanding federal budget deficit . |