Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean what about apparently we eat more chocolate than any other country .
2 My Keith tried a little drop last night and he said I must n't drink this so soon after then he had another sip must n't drink it and he
3 Bearing in mind this canal is in the middle of nowhere he returned ten minutes later with a bloke in a Land Rover .
4 For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey .
5 It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard .
6 Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery .
7 So for once I have some sympathy with John Major , who is enduring similar torture at Number 10 .
8 With only one functioning grey cell ? ’
9 What happens when we 're doing times now you did two sets of twelve did n't you ?
10 The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings .
11 The problem of the poorest was that they could not afford such rents as would bring an adequate return for builders and property-owners , unless they were crammed at very high density in properly which received minimal repair .
12 Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time .
13 Elle-women are beautiful and alluring from the front , though from behind they sport hollow backs and cows ' tails .
14 From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains .
15 On the other hand her measurement around her tum was 44 inches and from here she lost 5 inches .
16 Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks .
17 From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs .
18 From then we spent many nights in the air raid shelter .
19 Until then he remains Prime Minister .
20 ‘ There 's a room in there which has twenty-four Canalettos in it .
21 themselves and cut themselves and for , for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen , now if they had , they 're , they 're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them , but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and , but they were going round , there was American service in there who have little cards written on it , they said they do n't have to cover their heads they , they 're allowed to do just as well as they please
22 Get one more go than you used to now you get one left .
23 Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore .
24 Now I am one of the officers on there which gives two members from Wiltshire a seat on this particular committee .
25 Since then they spent another £100,000 on it .
26 These clauses may be construed as ‘ no amendment or termination ’ clauses , for otherwise they have little substance ; all treaty provisions are binding unless terminated .
27 The time had come for at least one paid full-time executive officer to take charge .
28 The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on .
29 The other six people all used this same excuse , but at least they had some hair to wash .
30 At least they do this right , ’ he murmured .
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