Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area .
2 Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved !
3 That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey .
4 Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises .
5 There were dozens , but in essence they boiled down to only one .
6 But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces .
7 ‘ The girl you drove off with just now ? ’
8 The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs .
9 Then when he joined the Frank Zappa group he came down with almost every member of the band , and George Duke was at the keyboard … ’
10 The next day I went down to where I used to work .
11 But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ?
12 As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades .
13 If it was a bonny day you worked on till sometimes three in the morning they were doing the .
14 Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails !
15 Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either .
16 Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less .
17 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
18 One said from New York yesterday : ‘ If you want to refine a collection you sell off in much smaller quantities — and you certainly do n't sell the finest works . ’
19 On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish .
20 L t Watts hopes to return to Bosnia where he experienced the most stimulating six months of an army career he embarked on at just 18years-old .
21 Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday .
22 Every time he hit a drive it ended up at least two time zones away .
23 But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while .
24 A well presented semi-detached property which dates back to approximately 1915 .
25 If all goes well , our own production of cholesterol should decrease in relation to the amount we take in from outside .
26 ‘ If we were close to a town I would n't even inform you , ’ Maggie said evenly , the desire to needle him coming out of nowhere .
27 His easy in the stressful world of live radio he puts down to over 20 years horticultural experience and his current position as tutor for commercial organic production at Otley College of Agriculture in Suffolk .
28 She said : ‘ In the end it came down to just two letters .
29 The cynicism which grows out of not having her tender feelings acknowledged and valued replaces the openness and tenderness with which she first entered into the partnership .
30 According to one story ( though this was told of others too ) , he was later murdered in his sleep by a servant who ran off with both the powder and Zachaire 's wife .
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