Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in their saddles of red brocade and their necklaces of silver thread with blue beads they looked very picturesque and the tourists loved to photograph them . |
| 2 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 3 | If the organisation did all customer liaison work from head office it might need fewer managerial staff . |
| 4 | The first one is methoxy propate in other words you 're saying , effectively , this group here was n't the longest chain you can get is a propate . |
| 5 | Despite their increasing equity stake in capitalist enterprises they provide relatively little new investment finance and for much of the time act as passive collectors of dividends . |
| 6 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 7 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 8 | Even if this shift is due to the availability of cheap labour power in other countries it is by no means obvious that socialists should support long-run protectionism : it may represent considerable progress for a ‘ Third World ’ worker to be exploited by capital in the production of labour-intensive commodities rather than by a landlord . |
| 9 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 10 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
| 11 | Seb pushed his way through the circle of men and in the dancing light of breeze-blown torches he saw Jacob kneeling on the ground . |
| 12 | Ajax Amsterdam coach Louis van Gaal was saved from a demoralising home defeat by two players he has on the transfer list . |
| 13 | So child benefit for two children it 's ninety twenty five for the first . |
| 14 | With Angel Delight on this bit you get a free jelly with this . |
| 15 | If the baby-sitter orders my son to complete his home work after that time he is disregarding my instructions and his duty . |
| 16 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 17 | As a reference point in popular protest it 's pretty powerful , Vietnam . |
| 18 | ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said . |
| 19 | You , you then take this and have a wrestling match with that objection you , you know what I 'm saying ? |
| 20 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 21 | You can use this statement within your own error handling routines to print out an error message for those errors you are not able to cope with . |
| 22 | In practice , given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not interested in being cannon fodder in this feud you 're having with Ace . ’ |
| 24 | Does the Secretary of State remember that in Northern Ireland Question Time on 12 December he and I shared a concern about the build-up of munitions and arms as far south as Limerick for trans-shipment to Northern Ireland , as unfortunately happened ? |
| 25 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 26 | In 1846 Turner patented the use of deck beam for use in buildings and later incorporated different depths of deck beam in other buildings he erected . |
| 27 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 28 | The adventurers may ask other questions of the Oracle , but the questioner must make a Fel test for each question he asks . |
| 29 | As he disappears behind a safety curtain of blue smoke he starts to say something , but he coughs on the smoke . |
| 30 | In their overheated frustration this Monday evening at Old Trafford they let themselves down badly through ignorance of the laws of cricket . |