Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
| 2 | Even when she was travelling she would be checking she had all the facts at her finger tips for her next assignment . |
| 3 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 4 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 5 | Ghislaine collects £80,000 a year from a trust fund set up by her father , who died after falling off his yacht named after her last November . |
| 6 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 7 | Millionaire Hall watched his side race to their 13th League win and then hinted that he wanted Keegan to stay on indefinitely as Newcastle manager . |
| 8 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 9 | Townsend at least gave fans something to shout about with his well taken goal in the 86th minute when Dennis Wise cleverly controlled a Gareth Hall centre for his captain to fire in his fourth goal of the season . |
| 10 | Here in 1868 his uncle died in his 80th year universally mourned . |
| 11 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 12 | The patterns you can make on your machine depend upon your first learning what the machine will do automatically and then experimenting by adapting all that you have absorbed into your own designs . |