Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I am used to playing at a higher level I still feel under pressure when I entered county cricket , so I needed the guys to rally round . ’ |
| 2 | An Add-A-Plane jig and planer I normally use to thickness ¼in strips for canoe building provided the answer . |
| 3 | ‘ When I 'm asked with what should you drink whisky I always say with moderation . |
| 4 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |
| 5 | ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration . |
| 6 | Right and that was the result we generally observe in agriculture in that , for example , if you have ever been down to er the West the West of England where there is a number of apple growers you will find that when there is a very big harvest , right , apples just left to rot on trees , right , simply because it is not worth farmers harvesting er those apples because they wo n't get er price to cover their average vanable costs . |
| 7 | On an average tour it will make the band up to £20,000 profit , a figure they rarely reach on ticket sales . |
| 8 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 9 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 10 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 11 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 12 | But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal . |
| 13 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 14 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 15 | Our medium term plan sets out a programme for developing the business we currently have in North America and Europe . |
| 16 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 17 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 18 | As the toga increased in social importance it also gained in size , though it clearly remained a difficult garment to wear . |
| 19 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 20 | If we bypass the decision we simply move into autopilot and the red alert comes into play . |
| 21 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 22 | Frances McAvennie , a former council roadsweeper from Glasgow 's Milton housing scheme , is not the kind of character you immediately associate with brasserie lifestyle . |
| 23 | By the same token it was a day she normally spent at home , catching up on her marking , preparation and research , and she bitterly resented having to sacrifice it . |
| 24 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |
| 25 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 26 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 27 | One good example I recently reviewed in Angler 's Mail was the Toray hook length monofilament from Normark . |
| 28 | Three or four nights a week I also wait at dinner . |
| 29 | After the game I immediately went to hospital , where I was detained overnight . |
| 30 | At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse , and the people there took her in . |