Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and about how many words we want from each one . |
| 2 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 3 | And for about five minutes they rave about how flattered they are , a little bemused but clearly touched . |
| 4 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 5 | She met his gaze , and for fully thirty seconds they looked at each other in silence . |
| 6 | We produce alfalfa , rice , cattle , and with mainly Indian labour it is necessary to oversee everything . ’ |
| 7 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
| 8 | This is quite common on newly imported Angelfish and in nearly all cases it cures itself with medication . |
| 9 | The boys started up dumper trucks , a J C B and a caterpillar tractor at the site , and in just one hour they had caused nearly £50,000 worth of damage . |
| 10 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 11 | And in rather chilly summers they eat less , so plants can get out of hand . |
| 12 | And in a jiffy you would be in the garden , and in another jiffy you would be through the front gate , and in yet another jiffy you would be exploring the marvellous Forest of Sin all by yourself . |
| 13 | And in yet another jiffy he was standing on the very edge of the great big dark Forest of Sin ! |
| 14 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 15 | Used occasionally and in very small quantities they work wonders for chicken and fish stocks and soups , pizza fillings and sauces made from insufficiently ripe tomatoes . |
| 16 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 17 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 18 | Within a year , however , the latter had returned to Gaul , and in somewhat mysterious circumstances he became bishop of Clermont in 471 . |
| 19 | Normally this rests in a make shift shed out the back beside the running lines to Fareham but during the recent works holiday and over more recent weekends it is pushed into the erecting shop where it was originally built 65 years ago . |
| 20 | The cold plunge was in the adjoining massage room , and on surprisingly weak legs he made his way there and gratefully dived into the plunge . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , however , he could give no indication of an average contract value , saying that it depended on an individual company 's cost structure , and on how many services it required . |
| 22 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 23 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
| 24 | This suited me well and by 10am that day I was hoeing and raking the 60-foot square potato patch in preparation for the sowing . |
| 25 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |
| 26 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |
| 27 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 28 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 29 | But in very cold weather it 's er |
| 30 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |