Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 3 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 4 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 5 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 6 | No I 've come to the conclusion that we 're deprived these days . |
| 7 | When pressed , Marsden concedes that previously ICI had not always supplied the farmer with what he wanted , rather that he was sold those items the Company technologists had produced . |
| 8 | But once he 's grown enough spines it 's hoped he can live in a walled garden — a real case of wash and go . |
| 9 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 10 | If you are told enough times that you are incapable , you begin to believe it and lose the self-confidence you need to do your job … |
| 11 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 12 | Brian Horton says that Joey has signed a three year contract and he 's sold enough players to last him a lifetime … |
| 13 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 14 | Our accountant has been asked to attend and it is hoped any questions you may have can be answered by him or federation officers . |
| 15 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 16 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 17 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 18 | He had shouted that he was a reporter but he was struck several blows on the head and shoved into the police tender . |
| 19 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 21 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 22 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 24 | Same as all farm work , see , farm work They do n't know as they 're born these days , these youngsters do n't , when they come to talking about farming . |
| 25 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 26 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |