Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 2 | To Eric I say a heartfelt merci bien for everything you 're doing at Leeds , and for everything you may yet do to help improve my love life . |
| 3 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
| 4 | When life gets too stressful , I play a Moody Blues album from end to end . |
| 5 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I did to disturb things , but it was soon obvious I had a blue-green algae problem . |
| 7 | I have a few non-leeds mates who would be interested . |
| 8 | The £100,000 project — which has a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 9 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 10 | Yet this is not taken into account in the YTM curve , which assumes a flat payments pattern . |
| 11 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 12 | It was the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society which suggested a civil rights campaign . |
| 13 | This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products . |
| 14 | This is confirmed by recruitment consultancies such as MSL International , which runs a chartered secretaries recruitment unit . |
| 15 | She has a few men friends at the moment : ‘ They 're all special ’ , she smiles . |
| 16 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 17 | For traders who want a low-risk futures position , an intracommodity spread may be attractive . |
| 18 | And when you install a new Windows application , the INI files are usually altered and a new one is created . |
| 19 | I 'm not surprised , I 'd have done me fruit , if I was going around with somebody that , that say they 're gon na put the house on the market for me , want to make a go , a go of the marriage , a new baby , two other kids and then oh , but yet , yet wants to play around in a , you know a little sports car , that nobody but two people can sit in |
| 20 | For example , if you get a new Windows application ( such as Quattro Pro for Windows ) all you need to do is run its Install or Setup program and it 'll do everything for you . |
| 21 | And one of the six Tory MPs who signed a critical Commons motion today on V A T on fuel , came to the rally to deliver this warning to the government . |
| 22 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 23 | Imperial 's George Whalley and Tuscan 's Ken Cox , and their wives , met the director general of the BSC James Tye , and comedian and musician Roy Castle , who sent a special greetings message to everyone at Wedgwood . |
| 24 | If you choose a joint honours degree , you will commence your university study of the joint subject ; joint degrees are available with Mathematics , French , Accountancy , Spanish , Arabic , Computer Science , Engineering , Psychology , German , Economics , Italian , and Law . |
| 25 | The boss knew I was worked to death , and not wanting to lose me said , ‘ Mick , you take a few days rest . |
| 26 | Study of the Hebrew language is strongly encouraged by the department but is compulsory only for those students who take a full honours course in our subject . |
| 27 | She compiled a 1300-page Careers Encyclopedia for school-leavers , graduates , parents , teachers and advisers ( She was working on its thirteenth edition when she died . |
| 28 | Lewis , who runs a martial arts centre in Toxteth , recently retained his Europa Cup title in Italy . |
| 29 | He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency . |
| 30 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |