Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 2 | And erm I think it 's a little bit of creative accountancy on their part in saying that and in fact putting that five hundred thousand elsewhere , and also they have erm done a further piece of creative accountancy in that the provision for pay and price increases they have reduced by one point five million , and the combined budget reduces it by half that figure . |
| 3 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 4 | The swirling shapes remind me of those kitsch 1960s lamps . |
| 5 | Certainly , there would need to be sound reasons to pursue it under such circumstances . |
| 6 | Just when you 're looking forward to pushing the boat out and having a spending spree , your sensible side reminds you of all the practical and prudent things you should be doing with any extra money you have . |
| 7 | Kate 's voice was full of warm concern as though some conspiracy held them near each other . |
| 8 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 10 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ I sarcastically retorted , ‘ just some French bravos welcoming me to this Godforsaken city ! |
| 12 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 13 | I asked the ZZAP ! editorial team to advise me on this one , but they replied ‘ we 're too busy ’ . |
| 14 | Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ . |
| 15 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 16 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 17 | I have quite a few exciting things to tell you about this year 's season . |
| 18 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 19 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 20 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 21 | Now only the deserted mine stores , gunpowder huts and relics of old machinery remind us of this former industrial occupation of the valleys and hills . |
| 22 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 23 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 24 | A non-pedigree dog is always referred to as a mongrel and , strictly speaking , this is the correct term for a non-pedigree cat , but few people use it in this way . |
| 25 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 26 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 27 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 28 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 29 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 30 | I need to write another book to tell you about some of the astonishing ways in which skills can be redirected . |