Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Francie had smuggled a tiny transistor radio into the house and on this he furtively listened to Radio Eireann sometimes , when there was music . |
| 2 | This he promptly brought into action in defence of his small brother , ran the farmer against a wall and threatened to run the fork through the aggressor . |
| 3 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 4 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 5 | From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points . |
| 6 | But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail . |
| 7 | During 1822 he also went into business as a retail goldsmith and jeweller in Bond Street with John Mortimer ( died 1871 ) . |
| 8 | These he occasionally set to music himself , and he frequently sang them in his rich bass voice for his friends ' ( and perhaps the public 's ) pleasure … |
| 9 | So we did n't get very much ti time off and by the time we got back to our rooms at night we were so terribly tired you just dropped into bed . |
| 10 | With these you can forget all you ever heard about health care based on medical need . |
| 11 | According to a report in the Sunday Times of Oct. 11 he subsequently re-emerged in charge of the country 's intelligence services . |
| 12 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 13 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 14 | At first we just stared in disbelief . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people . |
| 16 | In 1871 he again talked on dust and smoke , describing a respirator he had invented using charcoal to absorb noxious fumes ; this device to assist firemen was in the Royal Institution tradition going back to Davy 's miner 's lamp . |
| 17 | The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising . |
| 18 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 19 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 20 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 21 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |