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

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1 What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up .
2 For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice .
3 They 're gon na go in through that door the second it goes down , they were n't loitering at the end of the passage , they were right by the door were n't they ?
4 Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group .
5 For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour .
6 You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others .
7 I must confess to falling for this combo the moment I saw its name ; anyone with a sense of humour like that is okay in my book !
8 And they used to take about six loads a day you see .
9 In the light of that recognition , he can not dismiss as mere fantasy the sense we all have that it would be an unnatural organization of our nature if some slight personal desire was given its head against benevolent concern with some major aspect of the welfare of others .
10 This ensures that food is always cooked evenly across the full width of the vitreous enamelled grill-pan , so you can be sure of outstanding results every time you cook .
11 Closed right down no is a load of bloody bunkum the whole I move
12 It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership .
13 ‘ Your grandfather had a standard bearer of that name the year we conquered the Alan . ’
14 I want England to win , but if we do nt then at least we have got rid of that arsehole the way he deserves .
15 Whilst I 'm thinking of that notice the way I into the middle of the plate .
16 If ol' Desmond D knocked on my door I 'd go out of this life the way I came in : kicking and screaming .
17 Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics .
18 I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me .
19 Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing .
20 So there are plenty of ways of disposing of little amounts Every bit you dispose of from your capital every hundred pounds saves forty pounds in tax , if you 're at that sort of level .
21 Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven .
22 She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated .
23 I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner .
24 I start browsing out of a sense of duty to begin with , and drench myself with showers of settled rainwater every time I reach into a bush .
25 ( iv ) In the case of external objects the observations he makes may fall short of what he claims to be the case .
26 For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher .
27 ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush .
28 THE South African government and the opposition African National Congress yesterday sought to defend against ferocious attack the agreement they have reached to share governmental power until the end of the century .
29 But then , I was ready ter do all o' those fings the day I said I 'd marry yer .
30 Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising .
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