Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've always fancied your very own tartan , the Stewarts can now offer exclusive tartan designs now they have their own textile manufacturing plant . |
| 2 | Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples . |
| 3 | Days later he had it all planned after studying the brochures . |
| 4 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 5 | Now it was also interesting that after he forgot that two weeks ago we had his own Minister , David Hunt , crying on the steps of Brussels about the fact that the forty eight hour week had been passed by a majority vote , with only him opting out . |
| 6 | Six years ago I had my own head examined by the most distinguished of this country 's living phrenologists and was provided with a six-page report of quite startling accuracy . |
| 7 | And then ten years ago I started my own company er started in a very small way to begin with . |
| 8 | There are places where they eat their own children . |
| 9 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 10 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |
| 11 | Another ten minutes later she had it all worked out . |
| 12 | ‘ You can imagine my feelings when I discovered it this morning . |
| 13 | On the reduced T V licence fees well I think we all recognize that everybody who 's unemployed is n't living in the lap of luxury drinking ten double whiskies a day hitting the racecourses with a top hat and tail on the only pleasure , especially people who 've got young children to bring up is the television and such is the price of the licence nowadays that in order to sustain that other things in the family are going short . |
| 14 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 15 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 16 | Well the bad thing was , as soon as I picked my cards up I dropped them all you know ? |