Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 3 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 4 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 5 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 6 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 7 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 8 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 9 | On the stock list we found four carriages additional to the ones already mentioned , plus three trams , a luggage van and a BUT trolleybus , ex-London Transport , which saw service in Spain after trolleybus services ended in London . |
| 10 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 11 | Fishing into my green Marks & Spencer carrier bag I found some biscuits and an apple , some old sandwiches , which I threw into the water for the fish — and oh yes , there was still some dandelion wine left . |
| 12 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 13 | At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened . |
| 14 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 15 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the research on The Child Wants a Home project we noted more flexibility in the way in which placements were effected . |
| 17 | A director of a modern dance company , Bill T. Jones , a black American , is continuing the dance company he founded 20 years ago with his companion Arnie Zane , who died of AIDS in 1988 . |
| 18 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 19 | Within a fortnight of coming back to her council house she woke one morning to find all the house 's utilities had failed . |
| 20 | Logix UK Ltd , Redhill , Surrey , the computer division of Korean giant Lucky Goldstar 's London-based international operation , is threatening to sue Logitek over the the Logix name — used for the conference event it hosted last week , as well as figuring in its on-going marketing plans for the coming year . |
| 21 | The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day . |
| 22 | Nothing confirms the stature of artists more clearly than the way they tackle the potboilers of the repertory , and here as soloist in the Grieg Piano Concerto we had another artist who can be unpredictable , sometimes nervily so , Radu Lupu . |
| 23 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 24 | For evening entertainment we had two slide shows and a ceilidh . |
| 25 | As a forest justice he earned some notoriety . |
| 26 | When I was on the parapet of the convent wall I saw fresh horse dung lying near the main gate ; it was not from our mounts , but the lady prioress said no one had approached the convent . ’ |
| 27 | For cDNA amplification we prepared two oligonucleotide primers encompassing the P3A exon : a forward primer that hybridizes to the α subunit sequence 61–83 5' GGG.AAT . |
| 28 | Under the tarpaulin sheet he had two mattresses and a discarded school seat . |
| 29 | At the end of the Liberal Democrats Concert , er Concert Conference we had all sorts of singing and er jollifications , do the Greens do this in , on their final day ? |
| 30 | I am heading for a wilding apple tree I discovered last year — sniffed out , actually , since its lemon-yellow fruits smelt deliciously of quince and scented the air for dozens of yards around . |