Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 2 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 3 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
| 4 | No well that will be our that will be our Christmas trimmings that we bought this year . |
| 5 | Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots . |
| 6 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 7 | In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons . |
| 8 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 9 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 10 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 11 | We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times ! |
| 12 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 13 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 14 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 16 | ‘ Supposing he had to plough a field of thirteen acres and he had eight plough-teams working . |
| 17 | With the house came two hundred acres and he added more land later , planting woods which were bequeathed to the nation , with the house . |
| 18 | There was a project that led to considerable extra expenditure in primary schools which was closely steered into the dogmatic application of a version of teaching methods and which had harmful consequences in schools . |
| 19 | The sheriff had suggested that more detonators , designed to alert drivers if they passed red light , be installed . |
| 20 | The company tended to capitalise all costs and revenues associated with opening new homes until they reached projected break-even occupancy levels . |
| 21 | Alec himself was always interested in our ideas and in the development of art in the schools and he had considerable skill in persuading the Education Committee to agree to many of our plans which today would doubtless be rejected as not being cost effective or economically viable . |
| 22 | hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out |
| 23 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 24 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 25 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 26 | I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives . |
| 27 | She 's refused to go to the baths since she had that cold , but I think she was clever enough to make that an excuse . |
| 28 | He put an arm behind her shoulders to lift her , and , when , not fully awake , she fumbled , held a glass of water to her lips while she swallowed two pain-killers . |
| 29 | Davies , a security guard , of Feltham , north London , was jailed for 30 months after he admitted two charges of false imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm . |
| 30 | I had to save the purchase price , which took several weeks ’ pocket money and watched almost daily , hoping that no-one else would buy the books before I had enough cash . |