Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 2 | I mean half a crown size . |
| 3 | ‘ I want all the background detail he can get . |
| 4 | I invoked all the Lord Cardinal 's power to organise a search for you . |
| 5 | I ignored all the kerbside philosophy . |
| 6 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 7 | The writer of those lines and I enjoyed many a lunch time snack in the Hotel Vancouver cafeteria , and more often a glass of lager in the upstairs lounge . |
| 8 | I joined in with the carols — not that I know all the words dear , but I do know the tunes . ’ |
| 9 | Ah I knew this , I get this every tea time . |
| 10 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 11 | I do n't mind telling you , I find that a bit rum . |
| 12 | The letter continues : ‘ As the barrier to the central portion of the car park has now been removed , what guarantee do I have that a parking space will be available ? |
| 13 | ‘ I broke open the tin box you keep your money in . |
| 14 | The last time I made about half a pint of bread sauce , I lost half the bread sauce all over it ! |
| 15 | ‘ Look , ’ Simon said impatiently , ‘ so far there have only been passing mentions of me in the papers , but when I become famous the media interest will soar . |
| 16 | I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation . |
| 17 | ‘ I think this a retrograde step and clearly unfair on those council tenants who are not getting work carried out on their properties , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Well I did all the paint work . |
| 19 | I , I have such a guilt complex though . |
| 20 | I can but yeah that 's why I have such a guilt complex after and I think oh that was really horrible like |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very difficult time for us and I 'm fortunate that I have such an understanding wife . |
| 22 | A VISITOR to the area was having a drink in Headley 's Holly Bush public house on Friday evening when someone stole all the plastic wheel trims from his Vauxhall Cavalier parked in the pub car park . |
| 23 | Within a year his civil servants produced a document called " The Basic Principles for the Reform of the Courts " , which recommended all the steps Panin and Bludov had resisted for twenty years . |
| 24 | Victoria Scarborough and Colin Watson , taking five roles apiece , prove adept at giving every character a distinctive individuality while subtly stressing the continuities which make each the mirror image of one another 's frailties . |
| 25 | A parser is a program which takes as input a sentence and a grammar , and which constructs such a parse tree . |
| 26 | The evidence that there is just one kind of cell which generates all the blood cell types — a multipotential stem cell — comes from destroying the stem cells of mice and then replacing them with just stem cells . |
| 27 | An alarming statistic , particularly considering that the brown rat also carries leptospirosis or Weil 's disease , which infects half the rat population of Britain and kills about ten people every year . |
| 28 | But the quid pro quo was the loss of the ability to offset exploration drilling costs against PRT liability on producing fields , a concession which reduced the actual cost of sinking a new well to just some 17 per cent of rig charges for companies which had such a tax shelter . |
| 29 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 30 | Pulling on navy shorts and a pale blue polo shirt over her white lace bra and pants , she made sure the cabin skylight was open as far as it would go , then gave her sleeping-bag a brisk shake and spread it out on the mattress to air . |