Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 2 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 3 | Half term week goes so fast so of all the things we were gon na do this week . |
| 4 | It keeps you going in life , especially with all the brickbats you get in politics . |
| 5 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 6 | All we 're asking for , as I think perhaps the council will knock it down anyway in all the letters they 've written you do n't . |
| 7 | And although , now , twenty years later , she could understand his hurt and confusion and desire for revenge , then it had hit her squarely in all the areas she was most vulnerable . |
| 8 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 9 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 10 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |
| 11 | And I put it down entirely factually from all the letters you know . |
| 12 | Well worth all the trouble she went to , I 'd say , of mending the silly thing 's leg . ’ |
| 13 | The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart . |
| 14 | Well of all the crimes we deal with , these are the ones that police officers really get annoyed about . |
| 15 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 16 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 17 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 18 | Very many thanks indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in , and return of the questionnaires . |
| 19 | A very quick note to thank you very much indeed for all the trouble you took in seeing to the distribution , filling-in and return of the questionnaires . |
| 20 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |
| 21 | I thought it must be a tarantula at least with all the fuss you 're making . |
| 22 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 23 | Indeed in such a lawsuit it is the duty of the local authority to prove that they have the power rather than the person who challenges the action to prove that the local authority has no such power . |
| 24 | Tonight , and indeed on all the missions he had flown , the destruction and death was partly his fault . |
| 25 | So is it agreed the clerk write to them again about all the ones we 've listed ? |
| 26 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |
| 27 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 28 | Even one of the ‘ enemy ’ admired the ‘ valour and stoutness ’ of the Cornishmen and ‘ … never in all the wars he had been in did he know the like ’ . |