Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 3 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 4 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 5 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 6 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 7 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 8 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 9 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 10 | Over his cupping hand she placed her own . |
| 11 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 12 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 13 | Burton 's amours were widely touted ‘ with this guy you bring your own mattress ’ , a well-used crack but at Burton , well aimed . |
| 14 | And this time I want us both to make an effort to keep things friendly and pleasant . |
| 15 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |
| 16 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 17 | Using a similar approach I categorised my own activities as illustrated in Table 1 . |
| 18 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 19 | How hunky dory she kept it all . |
| 20 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 21 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 22 | At the end of such evenings he found his own bed alone , walking through blackened courts where once Saracen climbers had run with fire among the poisoned and the dying . |
| 23 | Later that evening we watched it all on television again . |
| 24 | Did that job I give you this morning . |
| 25 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 26 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 27 | Later that day she recalled her own words and reflected wryly that the happy day would never arrive for her . |
| 28 | Over five thousand pound we pay you another fifteen percent . |
| 29 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 30 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |