Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that last night 's rice wine , followed by Doogie 's steak cooked in Glenfiddich and then more Glenfiddich , had left my cranial suspension system shot to pieces , but he was definitely going over the top . |
| 2 | The chairman of the Northern Ireland Association of British Travel Agents , Ailbe McMurray , defended the record of local firms after Holiday Which magazine attacked some British agents ' performance . |
| 3 | The chairman of the Northern Ireland Association of British Travel Agents , Ailbe McMurray , defended the record of local firms after Holiday Which magazine attacked some British agents ' performance . |
| 4 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
| 5 | This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way . |
| 6 | They received this 3 years ' worth of money to set up their new community facilities . |
| 7 | ‘ I borrowed some other guy 's gear and went straight back out and lost his too . |
| 8 | That 's his mum 's picnic table , we got all dead people 's stuff ! |
| 9 | In paper mills the base for wage calculation was a measure of output judged to occupy eight hours , but paper makers generally worked another four hours ' overtime . |
| 10 | But top London store John Lewis finally lost patience after the company doctor said he needed another five months ' rest . |
| 11 | This was all the more important , by virtue of the fact that he was , in some sense , a usurper — he had toppled a descendant of Hercules and needed some rival god 's support for his own assertions of legitimacy . |
| 12 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 13 | I saw some nice Cox 's orange on the market two pounds for a pound |
| 14 | Squires , parsons and magistrates were associated with tithes and the administration of the Poor Law , in an era when the workhouse represented many poor men 's idea of hell . |
| 15 | There was at least a sufficiency of migrant Italian house and garden servants , who rendered any conventional mother 's help more than redundant . |
| 16 | I thought any well-known painter 's work tended to slump in market value for several years after his death . ’ |
| 17 | when we had that thin Martin 's band on . |
| 18 | At this stage SGB Group already had some 12 years ' experience in processing by computer its main business systems . |
| 19 | ago , WHEN a teenage-mutant-ninja-mole went berserk , offline , and destroyed some poor lady 's rockery in the next street ! |