Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 2 | Earlier in the day , the police task force moved on bands of New Age travellers , trying to stop them gathering for a festival this weekend . |
| 3 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 4 | My mother would n't allow me to go to the meeting last night — you know she despises anything Irish . " |
| 5 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Drake instructed them to try for a majority 10-2 . |
| 7 | Subsection ( 1 ) empowers the Bank by notice in writing served on an authorised institution to require them to provide to the Bank such information as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 8 | Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday . |
| 9 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 10 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 11 | I mean at the moment all the food is is protecting the license cos you 've got to do food , food up to two o'clock . |
| 12 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 13 | I mean into the bin first and then wash the dishes . |
| 14 | If you wish you know but I mean during the week nine times |
| 15 | I represent a constituency very near Westminster and I bring to the House many groups of youngsters from schools . |
| 16 | And the girl comes to see me — has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year . |
| 17 | When I got to the theatre next day someone had laid a dirty red carpet from the dressing-room door to the spot where I normally changed . |
| 18 | ‘ I was furious when I got to the hotel that morning to find you 'd already left . |
| 19 | I got to the chemist five minutes before closing time and the place was jam-packed with the elderly and respectable . |
| 20 | I got into the seat next to him and he quickly drove off , heading out of the village and down the road towards the Orne bridges , leaving a cloud of dust following close behind , no doubt attracting the attention of the German gunners and mortars a short distance away across the fields . |
| 21 | I sank into the chair next to him and groaned . |
| 22 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 24 | As I think I mentioned on the phone posssible sources of information that I would suggest are : |
| 25 | Indeed , as far as -my self-interest is concerned , on what principle could I choose as an end sufficient in itself something which I do not spontaneously want ? |
| 26 | I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost . |
| 27 | I came to the House 12 years ago . |
| 28 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 29 | Now the areas that I 've identified are the same ones as I put on the board last week . |
| 30 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |