Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum mum mummy I want a straw . |
| 2 | I 've got to mention insurance , cos now you 're in the Neighbourhood Watch you get a discount on your house contents . |
| 3 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 4 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 5 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 6 | At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head : firm jaw , aquiline nose , shining complexion . |
| 7 | On a table in the living room they found a letter addressed to me . |
| 8 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 9 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 10 | When he reached an Underground station he bought a ticket without even thinking of where he might want to go . |
| 11 | All to do with the s I mean th the Dock Commission they claimed a lot of money off the Corporation I think over that cos they |
| 12 | Well , Ian Smith Ryedale , I think in the majority of views across from the ring road you have a belt of open countryside before that suburban housing . |
| 13 | Mr Beamish received the medicine unsmilingly and as I opened the car door I felt a gush of relief that the uncomfortable visit was at an end . |
| 14 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 15 | In the case of my golfing year I play a lot of golf with the handicap golfer and a fair amount with those without handicaps . |
| 16 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 17 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 18 | ‘ Just tell your faculty adviser you got a research grant from the DEA , and you 'll be spending the term at the American Embassy in Nicosia . ’ |
| 19 | Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it . |
| 20 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 21 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 22 | You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available . |
| 23 | These properties of V4 cells only appear , however , as long as a large part of the scene is illuminated and the scene contains more than one coloured area , which Zeki achieves using a multicoloured stimulus array he calls a Mondrian . |
| 24 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 25 | So long as you got the question wrong you got a cabbage if you got it right you got a prize |
| 26 | In the duty-free shopping centre she noticed a couple of English girls buying jewellery and leather handbags , who ogled Guy with open interest . |
| 27 | In your December/January issue of Tennis World I read a letter entitled ‘ Thank you Martina ’ . |
| 28 | In analysing the relationships between particular variables in the housewife 's work situation I use a number of statistical tests , chiefly the chi-square test of significance . |
| 29 | As soon as you destroy the ninety degree angle you get a parallelogram do n't you ? |
| 30 | yeah he 's one of the few doctor 's that 's not seemingly not all for what he can get , he seems to be a genuine caring chap I mean a lot of doctor 's they burn the candles at both ends |