Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 2 | The recollection appeared to cause him further amusement . |
| 3 | Increasingly , candidates for political leadership have seen the balance of advantage swing away from those who control organizational resources towards those with ‘ media recognition ’ — a public profile calculated to secure them appropriate media coverage with the new mass selectorate that chooses presidential candidates or party leaders . |
| 4 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 5 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 6 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 7 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 8 | erm because my grandmother wanted to see her first grandchild before she died . |
| 9 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |