Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
2 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
3 | With a black eyepatch , pencil moustache and Viennese or Hungarian look of disdain he was pure Ruritanian musical comedy . |
4 | However , for every successful adoption of a new crop or new variety of crop it is certain that there were many more failed attempts at innovation , for the African physical environment places many difficulties in the path of farmers . |
5 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
6 | If you press even one or two types of flower you could possibly decorate a photograph of your holiday with a pressed flower mount ( see pp. 136–7 ) . |
7 | " No , Fate 's against him , " said Tilda , and after one or two forkfuls of beans she fell fast asleep with her head across the table . |
8 | Whether it 's a relaxing or active type of holiday you like , there really is something for everyone at Club Europa . |
9 | So that that sort of thing we 've come across . |
10 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
11 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
12 | The more than generous amount of RAM you have fitted with not influence graphics performance . |
13 | You see that dog-eared piece of paper he 's showing Gareth and Mike ? |
14 | Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know . |
15 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
16 | In more than five years of operation it allegedly invested more than US$50,000,000 in cocaine trafficking , arms smuggling and the illegal export of Indian mummies from the northern Atacama desert region . |
17 | If a letter contains more than one sheet of paper it should be weighed on the letter scales to ensure the correct amount of postage is affixed . |
18 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
19 | After more than fifty-four years of marriage she was by his side when he died at the age of eighty-four , at 21 Frimley Gardens , Mitcham , south London , 4 June 1943 . |
20 | After more than two years of discussions they have decided to publish two separate statements , one from each country , in the next few weeks . |
21 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
22 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
23 | and that sort of imprints it on you . |
24 | Erm but erm we we 've gone through the games have n't we the marbles and that sort of thing we we played that |
25 | We 'll do so-and-so , and they walk away and leave it , and the adapters they say , they see the adapters as stick in the muds , ooh , they all do the same old thing , ooh , it 's boring and that sort of thing you see . |
26 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
27 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
28 | I even brought her here so that I could see your reaction to her , see if that spark of jealousy you 'd once felt towards her was still there . ’ |
29 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
30 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |