Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 2 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |
| 3 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 4 | To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) . |
| 5 | In this pilot study we showed that self monitoring of hypertriglyceridaemia in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus improved lipid profiles over six months . |
| 6 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 7 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 8 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 9 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 10 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 11 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 12 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 13 | Boy I had that person finish . |
| 14 | Suspicious evidence relating to things other than the condition of the child I called secondary danger clues . |
| 15 | Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song , blackbird , song thrush , robin . |
| 16 | Just before the first Test they rejected blind-side flankers Mick Galwey and Mike Teague and chose to play Ben Clarke , tour No 8 , out of position . |
| 17 | He later became joint chairman of the UK Byron Society and joint president of the International Byron Society ; in this capacity he chaired international Byron symposia in Cambridge and Athens , on one occasion conducting members in the footsteps of Byron 's Childe Harold to Epirus , into which he had parachuted in summer 1944 . |
| 18 | The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations . |
| 19 | From Blackburn Rovers he signed outside-right Joe Hulme , said to be the fastest footballer in the game and famed for his accurate centres while running . |
| 20 | I said to Pete he went one Saturday morning , there was grass under one of the chairs ! |
| 21 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 22 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 23 | When I was a little lad I had this mongrel puppy ; he got summat wrong wi ’ him , and the vet wanted to put him down . |
| 24 | That evening I received two elephant tusks , a heavy , ornate gold cigarette case , a large , colourful carpet and the third class of the Star of Ethiopia . |
| 25 | For example , for several years she arranged regular Saturday evening social gatherings in Kettering for young people . |
| 26 | Well on er Monday we had some chocolate cake , yesterday we had scones cream and strawberry jam , and today we find on the desert trolley , just for you as a big treat , all this week at this time every single day on Trent F M , a little bit of something nice and naughty , but we do n't mind . |
| 27 | Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992 . |
| 28 | Almost three in four stated that for work purposes they bought good quality clothing to last , but almost half also said that they had completely ruined an item of clothing during working hours . |
| 29 | In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights … from a base in Zagreb … to the devastated Saravejo . |
| 30 | When the subjects heard the tone in the centre of each junction they performed two rating tasks similar to those used in Studies 1 and 2 , first a risk rating , then an estimate for the actual accident statistics for the junction . |