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

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1 It would be more interesting to see it over a year . ’
2 He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency .
3 Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega .
4 He did and they all edited it together a week later .
5 Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works .
6 They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing .
7 We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective .
8 We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject .
9 Jocelyn being conscientious sharpened them regularly the edge glittered .
10 So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on .
11 Get some petrol , go home and have a cup of tea , that gives us about an hour
12 Eventually my husband and the house officer managed ( with great determination and much shouting ) to persuade him that if it was absolutely necessary to examine me internally the house officer would do so .
13 That makes it probably the world 's largest resettlement scheme .
14 So do you find that does that help you quite a bit or
15 They stood ready to wave them immediately the train appeared .
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