Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His plan would allow each country a ‘ quota ’ until the end of the next century — a quota Britain would use up in 42 years at its present rate of emissions .
2 ‘ Anyway , with luck C.W. will come up with something there .
3 James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show .
4 It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months .
5 He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with .
6 If the safety message gets across … his little sister Hannah will grow up without the fear of what happened to her brother .
7 SHY tax inspector Felix will miss out on £50,000 this month — because he 's scared to make public appearances in case the bosses at his day job recognise him .
8 I asked him , but he was already asleep and I drove on to Huacho , wondering what sort of a man Gómez would turn out to be and why Iris Sunderby had broken her journey at Lima and driven up to Cajamarca .
9 That Navarro Rubio should stand up to Franco in this way was indicative of how power relations within the regime had changed since the Civil War .
10 At the moment it looks as though shock Juddmonte International winner Ezzoud will come over from England and if that 's the case we could have an intriguing race on our hands .
11 Gold Australe can reach up to ½″ in size in three weeks and they can be sexually mature by the time they are 12 weeks old .
12 Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner .
13 But of course she ought to have known that martin Jones would find out in the end .
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