Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here . |
| 2 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 3 | The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed . |
| 4 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 5 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 6 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 7 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 8 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 9 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 10 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 11 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 12 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 13 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 14 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 15 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 16 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 17 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 18 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 19 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 20 | When MacMinimum and I rode through the next day , they were pulling the walls down and even uprooting the foundations . |
| 21 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 22 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 23 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 24 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 25 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 26 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 27 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 28 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 29 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 30 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |