Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's what I was saying about Geoff 's car really you know that chap taking it and righting off and we did n't got a penny for it , I ca , I ca n't see how that 's right ! |
| 2 | Well she she jumps in her water dish inside she jumps both paws in it . |
| 3 | An emotivist will think that Butler is merely expressing and inviting an attitude whereby we favour this sort of system of self control , while an intuitionist will think that there is tacit appeal to an intuition as to what ought to be . |
| 4 | I principally in Harlow who the generous generosity of forsightness of the Council etc I hope these facts are publicised and perhaps shame these people supporting er you know this theatre . |
| 5 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 6 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |
| 7 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 8 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 9 | I witnessed the moment when they recognised each other . |
| 10 | Have you ever noticed that when Christians speak about how they became followers of Jesus , nearly everyone will concentrate on the moment when they faced that crisis , and made their decision ? |
| 11 | No up where the other 's are , where they 've just hidden in the bushes , I found sum brand new ones on Wednesday or Thur , after we had the heavy rain Why we going this way ? |
| 12 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |
| 13 | That afternoon he preached to three thousand people , so it is claimed , and the place where he preached that sermon is known as Fox 's Pulpit . |
| 14 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 15 | You can hide in your shell whenever you get that feeling inside you that tells you you are angry . |
| 16 | For instance , jacket in I like this jacket may be understood to refer to a particular individual jacket ( the unit ) , or to a type of jacket . |
| 17 | On this basis , the unit and type readings of jacket in I like this jacket belong to the same lexeme , because the same contrast recurs with skirt , dress , coat , hat , etc . |
| 18 | In stronger winds , by moving through the water quickly we create more wind . |
| 19 | I still n , I still think that we need to make er quick pro progress Chairman but er unless we do make quick progress and unless we do understand what 's going on and call a spade a spade then I think this programme is doomed . |
| 20 | Hey , maybe I should make a visicord of you two , sell it down-Level , sell you two down-Level to a doghouse where they do that kind of thing ! |
| 21 | One day when we get that shed away in the back of there . |
| 22 | It 's on that Were you there the other day when we got that sheet ? |
| 23 | Typical was the day when she had another disagreement with the headmaster at the local primary school . |
| 24 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 25 | If a yellow card scantily punished that , Schuster was to make full payment in the last minute when he earned another caution by childishly wasting time and was sent off : an unusual , but justifiable decision . |
| 26 | But maybe that is n't such a departure when you consider that falsetto has always been ‘ a sexual mask … the sound of a woman coming from a man … a way to demonstrate to his intended lover that he understands her fears and desires as if he were female himself ( Michael Freedburg ) . |
| 27 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 28 | On going back to the airstrip later I found several Pacific golden plover with the greys . |
| 29 | A month later you refined this argument by identifying ‘ 40 people who could change the face of Britain ’ . |
| 30 | well we , we stayed in a week when we had that cold did n't we ? |