Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’
2 If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
3 I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys .
4 We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county .
5 Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team .
6 I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost .
7 ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out .
8 Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there .
9 yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two
10 Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years .
11 It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
12 ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him .
13 I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’
14 The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify .
15 Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year .
16 You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four
17 Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter .
18 When Midshipman Jack Rogers , trying to identify a distant ship , hopes it may be a Frenchman and declares ‘ the French will never like the English till they have taught us to eat frogs , and have thrashed us on a second field of Waterloo , and I hope that time may never come ’ , his friend Alick Murray defends French courage in war and laughs at Jack 's belligerence .
19 ‘ I honestly believe I can score goals at any level and I plan to prove it in the next month .
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