Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this we consider to be legitimate business affairs . |
| 2 | To understand the reasons for this we need to look at penal policy in a wider economic and social framework . |
| 3 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've made provision for all I 'm ever going to need ! ’ |
| 5 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 6 | For someone like Nigel who 's got all the tools it it 'd be a a it 's not a job you can come in and just do it cos you have to take a bit off clean it |
| 7 | ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done . |
| 8 | Erm have have a look through those I I 'll while you 're looking at those I 'll still ask you erm er some questions |
| 9 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 10 | After 1985 , the Romanians played up their independence from Moscow for all it was worth . |
| 11 | Well let's not say all nine planets for all we know they 'll discover a new one tomorrow . |
| 12 | But , but before tell , tell me a bit about that I have n't got that on the on the tape . |
| 13 | I could have wound up in Wiesbaden for all I knew . |
| 14 | I kept my word to Jenkins and backed his proposals for all I was worth as a welcome , if minor , rationalization of the creaking old eighteenth-century ox-wagon of our criminal law . |
| 15 | And we can make whatever judgments about that we want to , as a group , I wo n't exclude anything Sue . |
| 16 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 18 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 19 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 20 | Contrary to all expectations , ten minutes later she was seated at the washbasin , and forty minutes after that she emerged from the salon feeling refreshed and certainly different . |
| 21 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 22 | In particular , with the imposition of liberal democratic institutions after 1947 it is widely felt that ‘ the Japanese have elected to forego the assertion of the right to the expression of untrammelled personal freedom in the . |
| 23 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 24 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 25 | And an hour after that I was back in the club sipping a whisky and soda and pondering what to have for dinner . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , ’ she said sweetly , rising and picking up her clothes , and her bag , now empty of the articles which she had given J. D. O'Connor , ‘ tonight I am going to turn in early , read and rest — such a change after all I have done since this time last week . |
| 27 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 28 | Er right okay well I 'll tell you what , I think erm people are coming to see me until about two or three or so but erm if you come a bit after three you 'll probably catch me on my own |
| 29 | As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me . |
| 30 | Bung 'em at the baddies for all you 're worth , but do n't waste 'em — you 've only got a limited supply ! |