Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 2 | They have thousands of tons of them stockpiled on their western front . |
| 3 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 4 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 5 | I would like to emphasise the point I made in my previous letter , that a recent BMA survey showed that 85 percent of doctors believe a ban on animal research would damage medical progress . |
| 6 | I realised from your earlier letter that you might not in fact have yourself read the DNB article on , so I enclose a xerox . |
| 7 | In the end Frank and I met of our own volition . |
| 8 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 9 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
| 10 | Something I 'd never to do , so I had to settle down and get School Certificate , which I got with my matric exemption , and people from did . |
| 11 | It went pretty well actually , the feedback I got from my immediate boss fairly pleased with it was pleased with it |
| 12 | It 's erm — and another thing , I was delighted when John Dreyfus in the Type ninety lecture used these terms of Charles Peignot called typo lecture and typo visuel , which I mis-spelt on my closing slide ! |
| 13 | Below the 102/2 comes the 101/2 ( £495 , reviewed by John Borwick last September ) and above the 104/2 lie the 105/3 ( £1,995 ) and 107/2 ( £3,195 ) which I reviewed in its original form in August 1988 . |
| 14 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 15 | When I arrived , I found to my great irritation that I 'd forgotten the film . |
| 16 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 17 | Some seventeen years ago I moved with my young family to West Ham from Ealing . |
| 18 | I moved from my little flat to join a transsexual community , people the other way round to me — men to psuedo-wimmin — but who understood me . |
| 19 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 20 | She does everything right ; when I was young I helped with my small sister — she was born when I was fourteen — and I helped with the housework of course . |
| 21 | I promised in my five minute address last year that I would be a listener and I 've already listened to many of your views over the last twelve months and indeed today . |
| 22 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 24 | The headings I used in my inaugural speech last year were … |
| 25 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 26 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 27 | The people of York will have noticed the mocking smiles on the faces of Opposition Members when I referred to my hon. Friend 's record . |
| 28 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 29 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
| 30 | As I mentioned in my recent phone call the best site for it is the Mill Yard , as last year . |