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

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1 THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city .
2 And then when , when , when he er going he said I I pay fifty P a week he said !
3 I want England to win , but if we do nt then at least we have got rid of that arsehole the way he deserves .
4 Well we charge fifty pound an hour you know
5 They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man
6 Closed right down no is a load of bloody bunkum the whole I move
7 Charles had to sign a legal document testifying to that effect the day he inherited .
8 The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report .
9 I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet !
10 What we are doing is providing information for perhaps clinicians to act on , we also in the future hope to develop the information we have into something useful , and in some cases the information we have already .
11 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 !
12 For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed .
13 Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events .
14 The strategy identifies key issues which GDA and others in the city must address in order to offer this sector the environment it needs for success .
15 It will then duplicate this process every time you select that JMP-1 patch , either from the front panel or from a pedal .
16 However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment .
17 In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries .
18 They noted with some awe the way he had risen to become one of the richest men in the county .
19 Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days .
20 If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down .
21 He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ .
22 Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do
23 You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others .
24 This woman the door she said to me would you like to try some crisps ? yes .
25 For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then .
26 Seriously , though , it gives me a fresh pang every time I look
27 If ol' Desmond D knocked on my door I 'd go out of this life the way I came in : kicking and screaming .
28 When the Golden Fish offered this man a reward he asked only for bread , which the creature promptly provided .
29 Colleagues , in moving this motion I am seeking the C E C to give this union the credit it deserves when achieving victory for its members throughout with a wider publicity campaign through the media , although if is on the television again tonight I think he 's gon na have a higher rating than Coronation Street this week .
30 If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know .
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