Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes well my dear look next time I have all again |
2 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
3 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
4 | For a few days last week it looked as though United States voters would behave as British voters did earlier this year and swing back to the devil they knew . |
5 | Why not give them a duty free voucher next time they fly ? |
6 | This guy last week she said you 're going to the Emerald Isles and he said where is the Emerald Isles ? |
7 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
8 | This time last night he walked into camp 4 at 26,000 ft . |
9 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
10 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
11 | He may remember that at about this time last year we published a series of figures which demonstrated that his predictions were wrong . |
12 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |
13 | This time last year I had eight goats given to me from eight different people . |
14 | THIS time last year I struck one of the most unlucky ante-post bets of my whole racing career when taking the 16-1 Ten Plus for the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
15 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
16 | But last time do you remember this time last year it got so that his foot was really puffy ? |
17 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |
18 | We wat , did you see that film up , that was on a few nights ago , some time last week I think ? |
19 | Some time next week I mean |
20 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
21 | So it could be worth asking your doctor one extra question next time he recommends a course of treatment : is it actually necessary . |
22 | Actually it is a debate about personal conscience Last night I had one of those phone calls that we 've all been getting erm the guy on the other end apologised for not being one of my constituents erm , I said it probably was n't his fault . |
23 | I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous … |
24 | During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections , in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses . |
25 | In his midsummer retail report last year he said confidentiality clauses were ‘ falsely conceived protectionism ’ . |
26 | Now more of a sex vixen than the innocent girl next door it remains to be seen if one can retain her teeny bop audience while aiming for the ( slightly ) more mature rock audience . |
27 | Storrie admitted that in the early hours of 17 May last year he robbed the two 19-year-olds of £7 and a watch after seizing the man in Wilson Street , Glasgow , and threatening to stab him . |
28 | When he had left Sarah at Maggie Byrne 's hovel that fateful day last December he had told himself she was no different from a hundred other girls . |
29 | Rudder also paints a picturesque scene in 1777 : ‘ On the curious travellers first approach it presents at once a very striking and respectable appearance , consisting of a number of well built houses , equal to a little town , lying very contiguous , but not joined together ’ . |
30 | If you want to enter the current date you can use @NOW but to fix this date ( so that it does not change to the current date next time you load the spreadsheet you will have to convert it to a value . |