Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHOOSING my words carefully , I asked a top Mercedes-Benz diesel engineer some time ago which diesel he would drive — assuming that he could n't afford a Mercedes . |
| 2 | In the audience I found an appreciative Dave Allen , the comedian . |
| 3 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 4 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 5 | Musing on all I had seen , I hummed an old Eileen Donaghue song , ‘ The Homes of Donegal ’ . |
| 6 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 7 | I painted the young Lloyd George , I painted most of the Cabinet , I even painted two of the royal grandchildren . |
| 8 | Were I to own a new BMW car , another ten microcomputers would be at my command , so their advertisements claim . |
| 9 | Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’ |
| 10 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 11 | I suspect a classic Washington compromise in the end . |
| 12 | I wear a greenish Barbour jacket with tight op-art leggings . |
| 13 | I joined the local ARP Services , and as my husband had not been considered fit for Navy service yet , he did too , unofficially of course . |
| 14 | Then I enjoyed the good Pinewood Studio British film and stood for ‘ The King , ’ at the end of the show . |
| 15 | The idea stuck in my mind and I contacted the local NGS organiser , who suggested we open the following year . |
| 16 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 17 | And how well I remember the tawdry Dave Mellor castigating me for ‘ snorting and sneering ’ at his apocalyptic view of what a Labour Government would mean . |
| 18 | ‘ You are now — I heard the belated Lord Woodleigh explaining this myself — you are now Countess of Woodleigh . |
| 19 | I broke the new FIFA laws and I was punished for it . |
| 20 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 21 | ‘ A week or so afterwards , not having heard any feedback from them , I rang the Blue Peter office to ask how it had gone , and I concluded by asking , only semi-seriously , what happened to my gold Blue Peter badge that Christopher Trace mentioned . |
| 22 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 23 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 24 | Do n't I recall a certain Richard Bach ( literary father of J.L. Seagull ) doing that self-same thing , and writing two beautiful books — Nothing by Chance and Biplane — about his bedsheets-and-bailing wire odyssey ? |
| 25 | Even at that exciting moment , I remembered the old Admiral Benbow , and I seemed to hear the voice of old Bill , the seaman , singing with them . |
| 26 | I bought a new Wilson FM with a sliding table for tenoning , a reversing switch , roll-on and roll-off tables , all the whistles and bells that would make it a really useful machine . |
| 27 | I introduced a weekly Sunday series called ‘ The Symphony Hour ’ , which I repeated in at least a dozen other cities around the world over the next 50 years . |
| 28 | And on another day we split up and Val and I did the Western Okataina Walkway , while the boys visited some more thermal activity . |
| 29 | Well we always used to have what I call a traditional Sunday dinner |
| 30 | I slipped an old Eurythmics tape into the cassette deck I have installed where Armstrong 's meter used to be and adjusted the speakers so the full effect came in the front rather than the back . |