Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty .
2 I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu !
3 And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim .
4 Well I worked out a hundred and twenty here and seventy pound pension .
5 I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table .
6 I won both the 100 and the 200 metres and achieved a great deal of satisfaction from the double .
7 I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip .
8 she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said
9 Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day
10 She builds up a full and fascinating portrait of a community with an acute sense of history which gives her descriptions a unique dimension .
11 Presumably not : but it would be a very bold man , a Karl Marx indeed who would assert that , for each and every woman and always , housework is her spontaneous activity , that it is the satisfaction of a need ; or that she fulfils herself in it ; or that through it she develops freely a physical and mental energy and will not be physically exhausted and mentally debased .
12 ‘ Look here , you hold down a difficult and sensitive job .
13 It was great to have you — and , as always , you put on an attractive and generous display of what is on offer from Traidcraft .
14 If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off .
15 Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ .
16 Here , however , you confront both the American and Japanese companies at their most aggressive and on familiar turf .
17 Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes .
18 She switched off the data-analysis and scratched her snub nose .
19 Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log .
20 He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room .
21 She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart .
22 She had also a gallant and generous heart wide-open to affection .
23 She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home .
24 When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it .
25 Now that spouse is only worth a hundred and fifty thousand pounds when he or she dies not a hundred and sixty thousand pounds .
26 We report here a simplified and reliable protocol for fast minipreparation and denaturation of plasmid DNA which takes only half an hour to produce single-stranded template DNA of high quality for sequencing .
27 All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it .
28 As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ?
29 Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ?
30 Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope .
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