Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said fair enough he said and with that I come out the garage . |
| 2 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 3 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 4 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 5 | 2 She thrusts out the leg , pushing the hips into the kick and using a footsword to break the boards . |
| 6 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 7 | In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts . |
| 8 | Trance-like he drove down the Edgware Road , responding to the multitudinous traffic lights with mechanical movements , while the agitated Eleanor continued to lash his unreceptive ear with a never-ending stream of abuse . |
| 9 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 10 | The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic . |
| 11 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 12 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 13 | No matter how much you speed up the entry into London at some point in time you are going to have to create a jam . |
| 14 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 15 | Sadler had articulated the political sentiment in his Manchester inquiry when he remarked on how education was but one aspect of ‘ a many sided problem ’ , and as such it necessitated both the development of individuality and personal conviction and ‘ a sense of national duty and obligation towards the State ’ , which could only come through ‘ better and more systematic training for the duties of citizenship and for home-making and family claims ’ . |
| 16 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 17 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 18 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 19 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 20 | I 'm glad you brought in the subject of , the leader of the Labour Council er in which means I am not deviating , and saying that Mister and saying that Mister is now running a moderate Council . |
| 21 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 22 | Then , if we get lucky we drive over the Luxembourg frontier into Germany , head south down the Rhine for the Black Forest . |
| 23 | I 'm glad they know where the bedroom is . |
| 24 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 25 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 26 | In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system . |
| 27 | I swear by all I hold dear the Koran , my wife , child and mother I had nothing to do with this . ’ |
| 28 | He could tell I fancied her myself , so I assumed he was just making sure I knew how the land lay . |
| 29 | I 'm still not sure I understand why the effect of the E two words is to make |
| 30 | I was supposed to get up this morning at half six to fe , make sure you got out the bath properly . |