Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
2 | In addition , the assets may constitute " new assets " from a previous roll-over relief claim under s152 TCGA 1992 , so that the vendor will have a " lowered " base cost in them than their actual purchase price . |
3 | The hard copy formatter works cyclically through the modules , searching for those with the specified charge code and classification and filling the relevant volume with them until its minimum fill mark is reached . |
4 | Me and my best bud Emma did a sponsored-eating-jelly-with-chopsticks-in-half-an-hour-athon ! ! |
5 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
6 | Me and my lovely smile walk down the street , the sky going dark grey , every lamp post vanishing with a crack of lightning as I pass it . |
7 | But their price fluctuates with market conditions and the banks may be unwilling to sell them if their current market price is too low . |
8 | On returning to college this will assist them and their fellow course team members to finalise their own Stage 2 submission(s) prior to forwarding these to SCOTVEC by 28 February 1989 . |
9 | And in that time , the three-bedroomed house has grown from a busy couple 's base to a family home for them and their two-year-old daughter Emily . |
10 | ‘ The Four Marys ’ , for example , are still in the 3rd Form of St Elmos , and despite new haircuts for them and their arch enemy Mabel , remain the same . |
11 | ‘ Them and their precious Father Michael . |
12 | ‘ I swear to you that your honourable gambling partner is going to restore those farms to this estate . |
13 | I 'm at the age , that er more things come to you than your old age pension book . |
14 | She and her 56-year-old husband Maxi were bailed until September 10 by a court in Gibraltar . |
15 | Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite once met Jimmy Carter — ‘ the best American president , ’ she and her fellow group members concur — in Boston . |
16 | After a five-hour descent down a treacherous ridge , she and her two sherpa guides reached the relative safety of the expedition 's Camp Four at 26,000ft . |
17 | Hester , of Chiswick , west London , left her 12-year-old son Thomas in California when she split up with her husband last year and she and her other child Katy , 18 , spent a miserable first Christmas back in England . |
18 | ‘ Yes , you and your bloody Detective-Sergeant McWhirter business . |
19 | Well you and your fucking money bags , keep it ! |
20 | ‘ I 've wanted to make love to you since I first set eyes on you . ’ |
21 | We and our European Community partners have repeatedly condemned the Burmese military junta for its failure to respond to the unequivocal outcome of the May 1990 elections , as well as its continuing disregard for human rights , notably demonstrated by the house arrest of 1991 Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi . |
22 | He knows I have extra time off owing to me because my last holiday period was cut short when one of the staff became ill . |
23 | The Asian client 's basic pension does not take him or her above income support levels . |
24 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
25 | He asked permission to build a retirement home for him and his 63-year-old wife Mary on land two miles from his home near Ponteland . |
26 | While none of the calculations is necessarily wholly new , financial managers should consider clearly whether they and their financial information systems can adequately provide analysis of economies of scale , experience cost reductions , switching costs , competitive operating costs among members of the industry or market , and so on , all of which help to determine the power of different market participants and the resulting market profitability . |
27 | They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century — but unemployment during the last 50 years . |
28 | ‘ We have used him as our main battering ram this season and Wigan 's forwards will find him a tough customer . ’ |
29 | ‘ We have used him as our main battering ram this season and Wigan 's forwards will find him a tough customer . |
30 | The birth of THE WOMEN 'S TROOP has made it and its older brother company , Black Mime Theatre , the only two professional Black Mime companies in existence to date . |