Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Bottle 1:2:6 3 Dozn & 8 Bottles porter 16:0 Cold drams 2:0 Glasses broke 10 @ 6d. each 5:0 1779 " Renews the order on the Committee respecting the ffees of dressing fflax & they to report to the next meeting . " |
2 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
3 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
4 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
5 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
6 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
7 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
8 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
9 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
10 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
11 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
12 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
13 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
14 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
15 | Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " . |
16 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
17 | Then the doctor suggested he and I went into the next room for an examination of the condemned woman . |
18 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
19 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
20 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
21 | When MacMinimum and I rode through the next day , they were pulling the walls down and even uprooting the foundations . |
22 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
23 | ‘ Yes , Bill Black and I quit in the fifth year , just before Elvis went into the Army . |
24 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
25 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
26 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
27 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
28 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
29 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
30 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |