Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 2 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 3 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 4 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 5 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 6 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 7 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 8 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 9 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 10 | Kamara limped off to be replaced by Falconer after 48 minutes and it needed a well-timed sliding tackle by Phillips to deny Guentchev four minutes later . |
| 11 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |
| 12 | And we went to Frinton of all places and you could go to the chippie and get fish and chips and everything . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to get down about my injuries , but I shared digs with Alan for two years and he always kept me going . |
| 14 | Judge Cox said that he was satisfied that in the summer of 1990 there was foam on the surface of the River Creedy for significant periods and it damaged the fishing rights . |
| 15 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 16 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 17 | She 's going to Russia for a week in February of all times and we want to have something really warm . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no real benefit to Scotland in these figures and we will never be able to fund our health and education services properly until we have an independent government . ’ |
| 19 | June 1941 was the second devastating German invasion of Russia in recent times and it was understandable that Moscow wished to create a buffer zone between itself and Germany . |
| 20 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 21 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |
| 22 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 23 | Memory returned to Seb in disjointed snatches and he hastily checked he was wearing his trousers . |
| 24 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 25 | ‘ In the beginning , it looked as if it would be a real problem finding a side to play Malta after six call-offs but I think it has turned out not too badly in the end , ’ said the national coach , who released Aberdeen 's Stephen Wright from his squad to play at Tannadice this afternoon ( kick-off 1:30pm ) . |
| 26 | I have been extremely interested in the youth of Shropshire for many years and I try to express this by such activities as being a confirmation catechist , working with young adults with physical and mental disabilities and also attending a week 's work experience at Dehon House . |
| 27 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 28 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 29 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 30 | You said you 'd be in London for several weeks and I 'm here for a month . ’ |