Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 2 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 3 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 4 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 5 | very clear , you 've got two officers with shotguns , do you mean that it 's just he gave his shotgun to him and vice versa or you nominated two different shotguns ? |
| 6 | On the larger ships where we have two main restaurants , we also have two hot kitchens . |
| 7 | Their homeward journey took them via Lille ( where Wolfgang fell ill ) , Ghent , Antwerp and The Hague ( where they gave two public concerts and played , by special request , to the Princess of Weilburg , to whom Wolfgang dedicated a set of six keyboard and violin sonatas ) . |
| 8 | The earliest examples are pictures of 1907 or 1908 , such as the wonderful ‘ Bathers with a turtle ’ , where he lays three isolated figures and this absurd tortoise in the picture and persuades them to cohere simply by the pressure exerted on them by the colour of the ground . |
| 9 | But Halling which he loved and where he spent fifteen happy years has no recognition of this great man . |
| 10 | No manager or salary were recorded but he managed on his mother 's contributions and joined Miss Sarah Thorne at the Theatre Royal , Margate , where he played thirty leading parts in eight months . |
| 11 | There are some exceptions to the rigours of this rule : an oral agreement was allowed to be proved where it formed one comprehensive contract with the written lease ( Walker Property Investments ( Brighton ) Ltd v Walker ( 1947 ) 177 LT 204 ) ; and a tenant in breach of the user covenant in his written lease was allowed to prove an antecedent oral collateral contract permitting the breach complained of ( City and Westminster Properties ( 1934 ) Ltd v Mudd [ 1959 ] Ch 129 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I ( named ) , the undersigned , swear on oath that I collected two yellow bags containing waste material from a friend 's house at Grange , Co . |
| 13 | Justice demands that I stress one important point . |
| 14 | I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert . |
| 15 | Harvey insisted that I drink three gigantic martinis before he released the waiter . |
| 16 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 17 | I do n't eat a huge amount because at 5ft 2in every extra pound really shows — so I have one main meal a day . |
| 18 | She would take lunch at Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead ( a 3 out of 5 in the Good Food Guide ) where Peter Herbert , its owner , would see to it that she had two poached eggs on Bovril toast and a good , old-fashioned pudding . |
| 19 | As well as the fact , already mentioned , that she requires twenty four hour care . |
| 20 | The power in the sails lifted the yacht so that she left two long trails of dark blue in the spray . |
| 21 | Then on the second piece arrange the pattern so that you get four complete repeats and a half-pattern at the left , that is the N1 cam goes between needles 6 and 7 on the right of the machine ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 22 | Diploid means that you get two complete sets of all your genes in sexual reproduction , one from each parent . |
| 23 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me before we left that you wanted two hundreds pounds ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 25 | You finish cutting your ring and find , as would be expected , that you have two separate half-width rings . |
| 26 | It was pointed out that you needed 10 great players to do that , and we 'd have trouble mustering one . |
| 27 | But she also had living there a Colonel Stringer who was quite an important Scots Officer , three of his servants and a sergeant and one other soldier , so she had 6 extra people . |
| 28 | Okay so you had twenty four hours all the way round |
| 29 | Yes , so you have twelve retained firemen , and six , at least , have to go , there are six who go on a tender ? |
| 30 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |