Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 2 | It was a technique which required split-second timing and horsemanship of the highest order . |
| 3 | It was a dream I had last week |
| 4 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 5 | For a moment he had second thoughts . |
| 6 | Because of a lecture I gave last weekend I 've to write a paper on how P R audits can be applied to the military which is great fun and an acknowledgement that people of a senior level were listening to my lecture but , um it 's put quite a bit of work on me . |
| 7 | Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident in particular a person who gave first aid to the boy and the occupants of car in front of the Renault . |
| 8 | a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there . |
| 9 | But Roxy er Roxy that was from his new C D Midnight Postcards and er he 's going to be at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal March the twenty eighth next year in Alfie , coming well ahead of it to tell us about it , and that 's going to be a blockbuster I think next year , and then goes on to Los Angeles . |
| 10 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 11 | They get the plan out of their bottom drawer and say ‘ this is a block we designed last week , ’ stick a different name on it and hey presto ! ’ |
| 12 | My hon. Friend will know that , not too far from Wakefield , the chairman of one of the hospital trusts in Leeds , who is the largest private donator to the Tory party — a man who decided last week that he would use private medicine in the hospital trust that he manages — was yet another of those appointments . |
| 13 | I want to play you a recording I made last night . |
| 14 | ‘ Maggie darling , I do n't have a clue what happened last night , but I think you do . ’ |
| 15 | But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt . |
| 16 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 17 | Erm If it 's if you want some kind of a guideline I think last year I ca n't remember but I think we I think last year we actually had to ask because the parish could n't support it totally . |
| 18 | One of Lecter 's erstwhile victims was a musician from the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra , whose body was found minus its pancreas and thymus , which organs were served up by Lecter in a dinner he gave next day for the conductor and president of the orchestra . |
| 19 | ‘ As an optimist you take first prize , Aunt . ’ |
| 20 | Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives . |
| 21 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 22 | That those unexpected interests in colour are still valid has been confirmed by Ryman 's ‘ Versions ’ , a series of sixteen recent pictures employing a thin layer of white pigment washed over coloured grounds laid on fibreglass , which were seen in Shaffhausen and at Pace , the artist 's New York gallery , in an exhibition which closed last month . |