Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , contrary to what Bill Graham says , Simon Carmody & Co. released it fucking ages ago . |
| 2 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 3 | No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products . |
| 4 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 5 | ‘ I understand that Matthew showed you those books . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 7 | Although Maslow offers us useful insights into individual psychology , his theory is open to a number of criticisms : |
| 8 | ‘ I accept , of course , that judges must be vigilant concerning the liberty of the subject ; but , if Parliament gives them discretionary powers , as section 13 of the Act of 1960 seems to do , it is not competent for them to refuse to exercise those powers . |
| 9 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 10 | My Mum works for Jane in there , in the alarm business and Jane paid me five pounds . |
| 11 | The universities of Manchester , St Andrews , and Cambridge awarded him honorary degrees in 1919 . |
| 12 | According to J.L. Missika and D. Wolton , politicians were suspicious of broadcasting and governments allotted it scanty credits ; at the same time , governments encouraged the cultural vocation of television , and information ministers ( including Mitterrand ) accepted arguments from engineers in favour of a high-definition standard of television that was technically satisfying but increased costs . |
| 13 | In the former , education can provide more people with the skills and information to secure them good jobs and , thus , produce an increase in the number of people prepared for fulfilling and materially rewarding occupations . |
| 14 | The fact is that our twentieth-century diet and lifestyle brings us new experiences that we are not well equipped to deal with . |
| 15 | But rumour had it these simulations all delivered Armageddon in the form of a total system collapse by 1996 or earlier . |
| 16 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 17 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 18 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 19 | And it was Rosemary who finished up in casualty after Carssier kicked her three times in the stomach ! |
| 20 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 21 | When Norman gave him some canvases as a birthday present , Minton was astonished for he was unused to having his generosity returned . |
| 22 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 23 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |