Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [coord] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’ |
| 3 | There is a problem getting people to see the products but they have a mutually beneficial relationship with Palm , who are experts at handling the Gore-Tex products and are easy to get to down the M4 . |
| 4 | I know of a lovely teacher who told her boys and girls in school about God 's plan for the animals and they had a mother bunny in her cage right in the schoolroom . |
| 5 | Aughfad is slipping down the weights but he showed a bit more sparkle at Newmarket last time and can underline his liking for this very sharp track in the Citroen Xantia Sprint Handicap . |
| 6 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 7 | and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool . |
| 8 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 9 | Try to find the words but you had a good , good case there . |
| 10 | You know you read the , the columns and you buy a second hand car and you buy one this week and you read the column next week |
| 11 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 12 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |
| 13 | He gets the goods and you get a debt owing to you . |
| 14 | Of course yes I know it encourages the pigeons and they make a mess but anything to beautify the inner city . |
| 15 | The services of the Hawes Silver Band are still employed to accompany the hymns and they played a march while a collection was taken for St Matthew 's Church and Swaledale Fell Rescue Team . |
| 16 | He pushed me as far as the trees and I seized a trailing branch . |
| 17 | that they came in to snatch the bodies and they put a a double watch on . |
| 18 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 19 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 20 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 21 | In addition G. lamarcki does not have a dense covering of granules in the oral region and ventral part of the arms and it has a maximum of five arm spines not four as in G. caputmedusae . |
| 22 | These were more powerful nuclear units than the Magnoxes and they had a combined potential output of almost 6,500 HW . |
| 23 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 24 | Subsequently we have reason to believe that he is keeping additional narcotics on the premises and we have a right to search your home without a warrant . ’ |
| 25 | I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise , I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but , I did n't find that , I do n't know what I 've done with that |
| 26 | Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule . |
| 27 | A band of volunteer drivers provides transport to and from home , volunteers and the Mothers provide the refreshments and everyone enjoys a trip out each year . |