Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He collected cheque books for the account and used them to obtain nearly £7,000 in cash and property .
2 He then collected cheque books for that account and used them to obtain over £7,000 in cash and property .
3 When I examined my own horse 's stable I found only traces of hay .
4 Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) .
5 I raised over £4OO in total , which I gave to Cancer Research and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . ’
6 Those details have not been sent out to the parish councils for further consultation and I refer there John to circular fifteen of ninety two Publicity for Planning Applications where at paragraph twenty five there is clear Government advice that where the changes are p are where the proposed changes are significant , and these are undeniably significant , there should be reconciliation .
7 But Hilton himself starts the book with a statement of its purpose to describe " more of an ymage whilk I haue bifore tymes in pertie discried to " ( 1.63r. – 193 ) and the image here taken for granted is the subject of Scale 1 to which some reference must be made .
8 There 's a pain in my lung when I breathe , and I keep on thinking of pneumonia .
9 Four and six when I went down Nottingham to work , at the box place , Henry 's I got seven and six a week .
10 Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time .
11 but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils .
12 I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’
13 I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime .
14 I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’
15 Lucker and I return silently hand in hand to the apartment .
16 I 've still lot of hair , but eh
17 I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt .
18 The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about .
19 and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing .
20 When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’
21 Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams .
22 Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord .
23 And , hope dismissed , she sought out pain at length
24 As UPSs go , the AccuCard is a modest example — there 's not enough battery for you to carry on computing without mains power .
25 The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked .
26 Erm , now what you do with this , these sections is of course you build up information over time .
27 This is the idea , this is , it 's going to help you break up things into work and non-work .
28 ‘ Through dark doorways you look down flights of stone steps , overhung by great , pink tufts of valerian and ending in a patch of sparkling blue water . ’
29 and you know how sod in rain .
30 Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme .
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