Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance . |
| 2 | Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots . |
| 3 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 4 | We go to the track meets , the basketball matches and we select kids and we give those kids scholarships based on athletic merit . |
| 5 | In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons . |
| 6 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 7 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 8 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 9 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 10 | We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times ! |
| 11 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 12 | If the district judge intends to rescind , notice is given to the parties and they have 14 days to object , whereupon a hearing is fixed to decide on rescission . |
| 13 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 14 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 15 | But when I go to the shops and I spend seventy pound for a week . |
| 16 | ‘ Supposing he had to plough a field of thirteen acres and he had eight plough-teams working . |
| 17 | With the house came two hundred acres and he added more land later , planting woods which were bequeathed to the nation , with the house . |
| 18 | This latest book turns the spotlight on the human aspects and it offers excellent entertainment . |
| 19 | The movie is out on video today from Paramount Pictures and we have five £70 copies of it to give away . |
| 20 | Such Quantities are known as latent variables and they include human abilities and attitudes as well as collective characteristics of society such as business confidence . |
| 21 | We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty . |
| 22 | Graphic Communication is a new subject in Scottish schools and it replaces Technical Drawing . |
| 23 | Alec himself was always interested in our ideas and in the development of art in the schools and he had considerable skill in persuading the Education Committee to agree to many of our plans which today would doubtless be rejected as not being cost effective or economically viable . |
| 24 | hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out |
| 25 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Moreover , union objectives and orientations are themselves of an extremely diverse nature between different countries and they require further elucidation . |
| 27 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
| 28 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
| 29 | As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research . |
| 30 | North deals and opens one club , East passes and you respond one heart . |