Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 2 | If you have n't received a questionnaire , or you know somebody in that category , please would you contact Kate Purcell or Jarlath Quinn at the School of Hotel and Catering Management , Oxford Brookes University , , . |
| 3 | Oh we 've done two or three , we usually do one Well er I would n't regularly but probably one every year or you ken something like that . |
| 4 | Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ? |
| 5 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 6 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 7 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 9 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 10 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 11 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 12 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 13 | He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it . |
| 14 | It 's just that you wrote one to another girl . |
| 15 | The realistic Dods admitted afterwards : ‘ While it was a relief to get back scoring again , the fact remains that with other threatened clubs earning points elsewhere in the country , it was just as well that we took something from this one . ’ |
| 16 | She went on without prompting : ‘ Although he was a painter he was a very literary man so we had plenty in common . |
| 17 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 18 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 19 | Slightly larger objects , however different and unrelated , should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin . |
| 20 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 21 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 22 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 23 | We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play . |
| 24 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 25 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 26 | Not that he 'd anything against that . |
| 27 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |
| 28 | ‘ Well — just for a little while , then , ’ he said , relenting — and perhaps enjoying the fact that he had something to relent about , was in command of the situation . |
| 29 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 30 | The Toshiba radar rainfall monitoring system is designed to alert local governments to unexpectedly heavy rainfall , so it gives plenty of advance warning for extra drainage and emergency pumps . |