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

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1 And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could .
2 An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August .
3 So I I sat by the side of this other car for about five minutes you know ?
4 There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense .
5 From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light .
6 They 've got tights in there this week they got underpants mens underpants in fact he bought .
7 After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods .
8 Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements .
9 My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again .
10 Later in the test on very wet days they performed well and gave good support and grip on grassy hillsides and rough stony paths .
11 Second , by concentrating compensation on very small producers it discriminates against our structure .
12 Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ?
13 They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open .
14 Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling .
15 Three sort of fairly general Can you , can you see okay ?
16 so er mm but , you know , so er given that it 's a sort of fairly discursive thing it 's , it 's , you know , it 's probably , in some ways it 's probably less difficult than you think .
17 Certainly from what I 've heard , things would never have happened the way they did , and I think from the sort of very short dealings I had with him , things would n't have happened they way they did .
18 Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside .
19 It was the sort of jokingly glib comment she might have made on stage .
20 From 1949 for a period of around four years he was a regular figure in Minton 's life , performing as his illustrative assistant whilst also doing free-lance work and other odd jobs .
21 For the previous privately printed and limited edition of about 170 copies you will be fortunate if you are not parted from £2,000 .
22 Over the next fifteen years of constantly recurring crises it was going to get much worse .
23 Sentiments in very vulgar verses I would n't wonder if you meant them .
24 Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before .
25 In some places on exceptionally clear days you can almost see from the south to the north coast .
26 In fact , we have witnessed this very scenario on so many occasions we could not even begin to discuss them .
27 Are they worth while for relatively small sums you know you talked about ten thousand over the hundred and fifty .
28 So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off .
29 Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately .
30 Well you 've got some colour at least this morning you did have .
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