Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 2 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 3 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 4 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 5 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |
| 6 | Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 8 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 9 | ‘ After all , ’ Tealtaoich had said silkily , ‘ you may be a bastard , my friend , but you are a High Queen 's bastard and you were sired by a Wolf . |
| 10 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 11 | I am delighted to respond to my hon. Friend 's invitation and I entirely agree with his remarks . |
| 12 | I know my hon. Friend 's view and I believe that he had an Adjournment debate on the subject last week . |
| 13 | Another person 's house and you really just start wrecking the place systematically . |
| 14 | I do not understand the hon. Gentleman 's mathematics and I slightly doubt whether he does . |
| 15 | Right , where 's this morning 's paper and I go to the bogs ? |
| 16 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 18 | Please sell as many books of tickets as possible , more are available from the Office — RING HILDA NOW — We must raise the much needed funds to complete this year 's programme and YOU OR ONE OF YOUR CLASS MEMBERS COULD BE A LUCKY WINNER . |
| 19 | Guinness manager Ken Morrison said : ‘ We are delighted to be helping stage this year 's tournament and it demonstrates our commitment to hockey in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 20 | This carpet 's navy and it 's terrible , it shows everything . |
| 21 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 22 | Well she was staying overnight at some wee girl 's house and I 'd say well that 's alright as long as you 're as long as , you know , that know the wee girl 's mother maybe , she 's a daughter a wee bit older than Lindsey herself who had the , but no this mother see she was divorced and going with these men and let her daughter stay out to half eleven , and Lindsey was , n was n't in her house till half eleven . |
| 23 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 24 | Caroline 's comment : Commercial baby foods make up a substantial part of the average baby 's diet and they are very convenient . |
| 25 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 26 | The climatic conditions of Scotland and parts of Cumbria and Northumbria are particularly suitable for the production of healthy high quality seed potatoes required for the following year 's crop and it is in these areas that most of the seed potatoes are grown . |
| 27 | She seemed fascinated by Benjamin as if he was telling some mysterious tale on a cold winter 's night and she was a spectator , not a party to it . |
| 28 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 29 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 30 | ICI fertilizers is also Europe 's leading liquid CO2 producer and it intends to stay that way , selling some 400,000 tonnes per year of product to industries as diverse as nuclear power and soft drinks . |