Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , walking in the crowded arcades of the Plaza Mayor , my heart would miss a beat as I fancied I saw Jordi mingling with all those similar dark heads and slender figures . |
| 2 | ‘ They have not yet admitted that none of my proposals would force a patient to travel long distances for treatment against his or her will ; that no doctor will have any new financial incentive to refuse elderly patients on to his list . |
| 3 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 4 | With Shine On being ridden by a hospital case , my home could have a chance . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The Queen has said that my lady shall have a place in the bed . |
| 6 | ‘ My sensibilities can stand a lot of outrage , ’ he returned . |
| 7 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 8 | When I was a young girl I and my sisters would get a boat and slip away , visiting friends from island to island . |
| 9 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 10 | ‘ My father used to tell a story that shows what I mean . |
| 11 | Besides , my grandmother will expect a lessening of formality , while you are in my home . ’ |
| 12 | When that comprehensive assessment is available , er my members will take a view . |
| 13 | I do n't know what you said to The Times man , but when I opened the paper in bed ( at mea mos est ) wondering whether my letter would find a place at all-well I dived under the bed clothes and went pink all over-as pink as you ! |
| 14 | My list may include a tomato , a buttered roll , a chunk of moist cheese , a slice of fruit cake , and an orange . |
| 15 | Cos I have n't said that my MP can have a pay rise , and as I vote for my M P , and you vote for your M P , they have to ask us first as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 16 | My brothers and sisters knew my dad could harbour a grudge , but not like this . |
| 17 | No apparently , yeah , my dad used to carry a gun around so like they 'd go , they 'd go out to like a restaurant , yeah |
| 18 | I wo n't deny I find you damn near irresistible when you plead like that , but I do n't think my ego could take a repeat of last time . ’ |
| 19 | My brother used to take a comb to school in his sports bag and when he was walking to school he goes |
| 20 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 21 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 22 | Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee . |
| 23 | ‘ I must see if my mother can find a place for you . ’ |
| 24 | They know that a mistake on their part could send a signal almost as disastrous as the one that Chamberlain sent Hitler at Munich in 1938 . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) If the offeror is listed , and the takeover is a Super Class 1 transaction , then the circular to its shareholders must contain a statement that its group will have sufficient working capital . |
| 26 | As for Williams and James , they would collaborate again on issues involving the West Indies , but this fundamental difference in their opinions would cause a rift between the two men which would have practical implications for the cause of the West Indian nationalist movement 25 years later . |
| 27 | Citizens young and old laid bird traps , and 700,000 sparrows made the supreme sacrifice so that the down from their necks might pad a birthday quilt . |
| 28 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 29 | Now Coventry face an angry backlash from shareholders at their annual meeting on December 18 when their accounts will reveal a trading loss for the year of £1.4 m . |
| 30 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |