Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in the high-risk category are , broadly , those which invest in trading companies or which lack an assured means of turning this unquoted stock back into cash . |
| 2 | There may be some justification for the ( insular ) suspicion that when the Emperor is restocking his wardrobe he usually shops in Paris ; but the rashionability or ideas does not or itself constitute an honest argument against them ; indeed , to offer this as one 's main response is to betray intellectual bankruptcy . |
| 3 | So you are unlikely to be given an exhibition unless your work is already known by the gallery or you have an established reputation and proven success . |
| 4 | To do this , they need to work out what their partner is doing , when for example , he or she lifts an empty cup to their lips , or tilts an empty teapot above the cup . |
| 5 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 6 | All our kit was strictly numbered and counted , and anybody who was missing a vest or who had an extra T-shirt got kicked or punched . |
| 7 | North London-based staff who were not in a category entitled to home relocation allowances , or who had an additional mileage of less than 15 miles were entitled to receive additional commuting costs . |
| 8 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |
| 9 | In sign , it can be seen in the learner 's apparent acknowledgement of comprehension of a statement by the deaf person which the hearing learner in fact has not understood , or it involves an immediate switch of topic by the hearing learner to something in which he feels more competent , without answering the deaf person 's query . |
| 10 | This will have two effects : either the rider gets angry or he suffers an immediate confidence failure . |
| 11 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 12 | In March Elsie Streek and class members took tambours and bean bags along to the Woolwich Branch of the Salvation Army , and everyone had an enjoyable afternoon of Medau . |
| 13 | The guy beside me in the doorway calls in and mentions I 'm there , and I get an immediate order to fade . |
| 14 | And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible . |
| 15 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 16 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 17 | ‘ The midwife disappeared and I had an overwhelming desire to push , which I tried to fight . |
| 18 | After I had arranged to meet Jack on the following Wednesday , the Masons left for home , and I had an early dinner with my parents . |
| 19 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 20 | I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again . |
| 21 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 22 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 23 | But I was walking in the market place , shortly after , only about just over a week after , and I met an old fellow who had retired from Hello Graham ! |
| 24 | She asked what I had in mind , and I said an informal conversation about the principal events of her life from her girlhood at Glamis Castle to the present day . |
| 25 | For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order . |
| 26 | And I remembered an early line from ‘ Othello ’ where Iago says something like , ‘ I 'll get that bloody Moor if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 27 | It 's late and I have an early start . ’ |
| 28 | Erm one from Paddy and I have an official letter er apologizing for not being able to be here . |
| 29 | And I have an uneasy feeling that this stance is becoming a handicap in the modern world , like not being computer-literate . |
| 30 | What , why have you put down that you have your regional accent and I have an Irish accent ? |