Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 2 | There was great excitement at the MacIntyre Home when Kate Humphries , Trainee Teachers , took ten Medau girls up to the London Barbican Physical ‘ 84 Exhibition last October . |
| 3 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 4 | Reshuffling its pack , Specialix has brought its research and development operations back to the UK under the charge of technical director Tony Beaumont . |
| 5 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean that 's something that I enjoy doing , it 's , it 's quite a lot of fun in , in , in , in , coming to , to actually research each walk afterwards , er one for example , the Rollright Stones up on the Warwickshire border , that was particularly interesting because there 's quite a , quite a legend surrounding the Stones up there , er then there 's one at er a place called Hampton Gay just off the Banbury road , the Midlands-North railway line er goes quite close to the village of Hampton Gay , and towards the end of the last century there was a major railway disaster on that track killing about er 30 people I think , er so , you know , things like that which are perhaps not er that well known , you , you , you stumble across when you come to do the research . |
| 7 | Third , there was much concern over the continuity of oil and gas movements out of the Gulf area , on which a host of consumers , in the Third World as well as OECD countries , depended . |
| 8 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |
| 9 | In March Elsie Streek and class members took tambours and bean bags along to the Woolwich Branch of the Salvation Army , and everyone had an enjoyable afternoon of Medau . |
| 10 | But friends , comrades - consider — if Britain treats its own like dirt , how will it treat its faraway cousins down under the Antipodes ? ’ |