Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 2 | Deferred pension entitlements for employees who have left the STG or who leave prior to privatisation will be similarly protected . |
| 3 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 4 | His Journal records his disgust with the " savage ignorance and wickedness " of the Newcastle colliers who assembled on Sundays to " dance , fight , curse and swear and play at chuck-ball , span-farthing , or whatever came next to hand " . |
| 5 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 6 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
| 7 | THE rich fare of Fried Green Tomatoes needed something vintage to accompany it and I got that from Albert Finney in The Playboys ( Warner , 15 , out now ) . |
| 8 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 9 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 10 | [ And I had thousands of people watching ! ] |
| 11 | I thought what a good idea it would be for me to do the same and I kept this in mind . |
| 12 | I am not a full man , and nothing can ever alter that ; but I am me , and I regard that as compensation enough . |
| 13 | The scene of the Sufi scholar in his room was straight out of a detail from the Anvar-i Suhayli — or indeed any of the illuminated Mughal manuscript books — and I said this to Dr Jaffery . |
| 14 | And I make that on Thursdays , nice big lasagna . |
| 15 | Strength went from my limbs and I felt faint with relief . |
| 16 | And I felt full of happiness . |
| 17 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 18 | I want to see er the this rubbish dump but this is n't the time to do it and as the Conservatives said , we should wait on er to see what the Council er wants to do and I take that on board . |
| 19 | Hamilton and I grow rich in gold . |
| 20 | Well , I 'll tell you something , if it is , we 'll have many more happy moments like it , because I feel I 've just found you and I feel sorry for Mother that she never found you . ’ |
| 21 | main road , there 's only a couple really and the , the air is a lot better because there 's lots of trees there and er , it 's , you know , if you ever feel bad I go there and I feel different within hours , you know , because the air 's so much better . |
| 22 | She 's like a daughter , the daughter I never had , and I lie awake at nights thinking what 's going to happen to her when I 'm gone , because men being what they are , they 'll take her on because of the money . |
| 23 | I also run a contrast colour tacking stitch around the outline for a sewing guide and I leave this in place until I have re-hung the sweater on the knitting machine to attach the neck band . |
| 24 | Now , erm , supposing that er , I have ten units of parental investment , and I invest ten in A and ten in B because I 'm equally related to both of them . |
| 25 | Anyway , and I have one for Connie , that 's the little girl over . |
| 26 | I really just wanted to record our appreciation erm , and I think those of others too . |
| 27 | Even in electronic mail I could find myself — and I see this among women colleagues — adopting a more relaxed approach . |
| 28 | My front rod-rests are fitted with electric bite alarms and I couple these with tubes of silver kitchen foil as indicators . |
| 29 | After the lecture he answered many questions , some of them pretty informed and which included some on Jack the Ripper which our publicity had mentioned . |
| 30 | ‘ And you class that as success ? ’ |