Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 2 | And I get such a fright cos I keep expecting a bird |
| 3 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 4 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister and I had such a meeting on the twentieth of December . |
| 6 | The writer of those lines and I enjoyed many a lunch time snack in the Hotel Vancouver cafeteria , and more often a glass of lager in the upstairs lounge . |
| 7 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 8 | The birth was fine , the bonding process took a couple of days longer , and I felt such a surge of energy rushing back into my system that I decided to open a shop at the end of the first week , and did in fact do so six weeks after the birth . |
| 9 | I , I 've been in Germany recently , selling. , I took a number of our British products over and I saw half a ton of my cheeses in the German supermarket . |
| 10 | Nay and I call that an injustice . |
| 11 | And I have half a mind to take you at your word , give you what you seem to want and turn you out of my house after I have finished with you . ’ |
| 12 | And I think such an opportunity might be helpful , to actually mull it over . |
| 13 | I reach that sorry conclusion after years of involvement in one environmental organisation or another , and I defend such a position for two reasons . |
| 14 | Of course , the servants ' hall at Darlington Hall , like any servants ' hall anywhere , was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception , and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee — and at times , I regret to say , members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of , say , Mr Jack Neighbours . |
| 15 | A parser is a program which takes as input a sentence and a grammar , and which constructs such a parse tree . |
| 16 | McLeish agreed with her promptly and she raised half a smile for him . |
| 17 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |
| 18 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |
| 19 | and the West End Chapel keeps her going er and she said many a time that helped her to get |
| 20 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 21 | ‘ He veered to the right , I veered strongly to the left and we had many a set to . ’ |
| 22 | The centre will , however , often ‘ attempt to neutralise the influences of local interests in local states ’ ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 41 ) , and we claim such an attempt has taken place from 1979 to 1988 and that it is this which lies behind the current restructuring of local-central government relations . |
| 23 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 24 | They just had ten and they had five a side football . |
| 25 | And they had half an aspirin , pinch of sugar . |
| 26 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 27 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 28 | ‘ And when they stopped the film , and everybody made such a row they had to start it again . ’ |
| 29 | He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors . |
| 30 | Bert Green says he does n't know every wave and ripple , but he does know the winning route and he keeps that a secret . |