Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 2 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 3 | Johnston had an unhappy time at Rangers after returning from French club Metz and his subsequent move to Everton has not yet proved a great success . |
| 4 | He graduated with first class honours in oil technology from Imperial College London and his early career was spent with Amoco and Shell working in the UK , Netherlands , Guyana and Australia . |
| 5 | One entire flank of the Witch King 's army was held by Chaos Knights and their bestial retinues . |
| 6 | A MARKETING battle begins this week between industry goliath IBM and its smaller opponent Microsoft . |
| 7 | My boy Jacob and his young son Billy know your family too . ’ |
| 8 | The P&O Roadtanks network of 13 depots around the UK , reaches from Grangemouth in Scotland to Pyle in South Wales and their shiny tankers are a regular sight on British motorways . |
| 9 | That 's dad Mike , mum Gill and their four children — 18-year-old Natasha , Dominic ( 17 ) , Simon ( 12 ) and 11-year-old Melissa . |
| 10 | From the road , Leck Fell declines in a mile-long slope to Ease Gill and its main concentration of potholes are reached in a ten-minute walk ; others , much lower down the slope , form part of the Ease Gill cave system and are too far to be visited if Gragareth is also in the itinerary . |
| 11 | On behalf of the Society members we extend our sympathy to June 's husband Bob and her two sons . |
| 12 | Bennett was considered an upstart , and a civilian upstart to boot , in spite of Point Cook and his Short Service Commission , not to mention his formidable flying experience and technical background . |
| 13 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 14 | Mrs Ellis , 41 , a nurse at St Michael 's and Courtaulds Hospitals in the town , said she was in her garden with her husband Chris and their two children , Katharyn , 12 , and Matthew , nine , when the incident happened . |
| 15 | They perpetuate the great romances and adventure stories of the Middle Ages , setting down in simple and unadorned sentences the songs and tales formerly carried by minstrel and troubadour ; tales of the Seven Champions of Christendom , the great Bevis of Southampton ( twice quoted above ) , with his steed Arundel and his invincible sword Morglay , Arthur and his company of the Round Table . |
| 16 | Jim , 38 , star of TV 's Big Break , is hoping to celebrate Christmas with fourth wife Tracie and their young sons Charlie , three , and one-year-old Fred . |
| 17 | Song From The End Of The World is inspired by Dingle Bay , on Ireland 's west coast , and makes reference to the god Pan and his recurring influence on that landscape . |
| 18 | He likes to take time off to be with his wife Judy and their four children . |
| 19 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 20 | Andy Sinton , the footballer , is 26 and lives with his wife Linda and their three-months-old son , Daniel . |
| 21 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |
| 22 | In his will , drawn up in 1662 , Stokes divided his estate equally between his wife Katharine and his married daughter Katherine Haydon . |
| 23 | Hugh , meanwhile , loses his contract as a TV presenter , takes to the liquor then flees the soothing ministrations of his wife Julia and their small twins . |
| 24 | In marked contrast to his reserve about himself and his immediate family — his wife Helen and their three children — there is a wealth of information about his father . |
| 25 | He merely insists that he , his wife Debbie and their two daughters live in ‘ an unremarkable family home ’ . |
| 26 | Botha , who met dos Santos and his Angolan counterpart , Lt.-Col. Pedro de Castro Van-Dúnem " Loy " , said at a press conference that a solution to the conflict in Angola should be achieved " by Angolans " , although he added that South Africa was prepared , if asked , to " make its contribution " . |
| 27 | Perhaps the series includes both species and is about the genus Crow and its symbolic properties . |
| 28 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 29 | ‘ I think your friend Billy and his fellow commandos were a bit peeved to find themselves here after the horse had bolted , so to speak . ’ |
| 30 | Last night Oftel and its chief Ian Byatt were accused of failing to act in the public 's interests . |