Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first . |
| 2 | Trading Standards however important , and Trading Standards is very important , erm , when you 're getting down to erm , reductions in equipment and uniforms and men , then lives are at risk , it is really a matter of er , er , of , of for our fire fighters that they have the right equipment and the right uniform and when it actually comes down , you ca n't compare that to maybe reductions in Trading Standards . |
| 3 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 4 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 5 | Each time the line is paid out , the kite will begin to sink as its airspeed is decreased , so only release the line in stages and allow the kite to climb in these steps until you have the final height you want . |
| 6 | Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space . |
| 7 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 8 | How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | " It 's better not to shoot smaller animals until you have the bigger prizes you seek . |
| 10 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 12 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 13 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 14 | The broadcast blade split into mirroring fragments and she kicked the red tube of its handle at Zuleika 's head . |
| 15 | The party 's policy review paper says Muslims and other minority religious Home groups should be entitled to voluntary-aided schools provided they follow the national curriculum . |
| 16 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 17 | He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut . |
| 18 | Gedge thought Charman was technically the worst of all the contenders but he liked the right bands in The Folk Devils , Josef K and The Three Johns , and more especially , he had an obsessive interest in The Fall . |
| 19 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 20 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 21 | No I do I think that 's wise to teach them in schools because they learn the right way . |
| 22 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 23 | You 've been cheating me , you stinking ass hole , letting me pay you for second-rate designs while you market the best ideas yourself . ’ |
| 24 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 25 | It is also helpful to have the LH simply read down the list of words before you start the actual checking . |
| 26 | Twelve months after she topped the amateur charts , when winning the British , French and Italian Amateur Championships , France 's Valerie Michaud left the professionals in her wake by triumphing in the Holiday Inn Leiden Open , at Rijswijk in Holland . |
| 27 | Ivan 's dictates on balanced tackle were instrumental in my discarding unsuitable ledger rods before I found the right one . |
| 28 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 29 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 30 | And the new consumer awareness made increasing demands on manufacturers as we entered the great and glorious age of the hypermarket and out-of-town superstore . |