Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody likes answering machines , but if we are out at the bank , or out of normal hours when you telephone , please leave a clear note of your name and telephone number with your message . |
| 2 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 3 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 4 | When such a large area reveals it has very few tall peaks then you can bet your last Mars Bar they 'll be stunners . |
| 5 | For these , they owed service in the host with one knight ; they paid 300 s.bordelaises in relief at change of lord and they owed the king-duke a meal with ten attendant knights whenever he came to Gascony , at the castle of Redort . |
| 6 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 7 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 8 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 9 | On some journeys she was accompanied by relations , but on her ‘ Great Journey ’ in 1698 she travelled on horseback with only one or two servants , staying at inns or at private houses where she had family connections . |
| 10 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 11 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 12 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 13 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |
| 14 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 15 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
| 16 | However , it is accepted that there will be specific cases where it is necessary to leave the salvage with the Policyholder for the purposes of a settlement , in which case some adjustment should be made to the settlement figure . |
| 17 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 18 | Eight minutes later we 're lost . |
| 19 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 20 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 21 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 22 | Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated . |
| 23 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 24 | ‘ Eight months ago it happened ! ’ said Gabriel . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 26 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 27 | From eight months onwards they are likely to protest loudly about being passed around , and cling to the person they know best . |
| 28 | My son Mark was eight months when he started and Rachel was 2½ . |
| 29 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 30 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |