Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 2 | It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House . |
| 3 | It should be noted , however , that he also protested against conditions at Newgate , particularly the presence of strangers in the chapel ‘ pointing & whispering , to ye Confusion of ye wretched Men to Dye ’ . |
| 4 | In a long , frank interview with me this week at Guy 's Hospital , where he is now the head of Forensic Medicine , Dr West stuck to his original view . |
| 5 | I had a hand-tooled Mexican handbag with me that day in court . |
| 6 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 7 | The majority of them negotiated entry into the Roman Empire under the leadership of Fritigern . |
| 8 | I 'm trying to get hold of you this afternoon for the following reasons ( listed in case we do n't manage to talk ) : |
| 9 | Carry a ‘ black book ’ on outings , and record in it unacceptable behaviours by writing a short description in front of your child ( such as ‘ wandered off in supermarket ’ ) . |
| 10 | Laid out plain as day for us white folks by the angry artistic voices of our ghettos . |
| 11 | Lot forty two Lot forty two is the er large selection of auction catalogues and we 've got a sample showing , there we are works of art for you twenty pounds for them at twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds sample showing for twenty pounds , anyone want them for twenty , thank you sir , twenty pounds I 've got in the centre and I shall sell at twenty if there 's no further bid at twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 12 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 13 | So why do you fill in all the rest of them silly columns in ? |
| 14 | Aaaaah , woe is me ( and all the rest of us stranded miles from Elland Road ) . |
| 15 | rest of it biggest part of it and some of , part if it 's in to grass and the other part I think is gradually gon na go to grass I think |
| 16 | Of the final quarter , I 'd put about 10 per cent into a straight emerging markets fund … and the rest into US smaller companies through the Hypo Foreign & Colonial fund . |
| 17 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |
| 18 | We may find a use for you one day in some undercover job . ’ |
| 19 | John can you really press ahead with this recommendation in the light of the fact that there is clearly such mass local feeling about it such distrust on on a grand scale of the reassurances that you and fellow planners have made ? |
| 20 | They have fiery red eyes and some say they are the Devil 's own pets , roaming the countryside with him each evening in search of the newly dead . |
| 21 | At that moment she hated the bald guide with her one lock of blond hair curled in the hollow of her nape . |
| 22 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
| 23 | Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid . |
| 24 | She 's confined to bed with her second attack of flu in , since er since December , so that 's why she 's not here today . |
| 25 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 26 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 27 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 28 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 29 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 30 | Ah keep a lot o' me young beasts in them spots . |