Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [Wh 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 | It gusted into every overhang of concrete , whistled down the brick funnels on the tall building where she lived . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 6 | Do you know that bit where he was ha looking over the diving board and stuff ? |
| 7 | Just got ta tie a bit of wood on the end of that bit where it 's rotted . |
| 8 | And who makes that decision where we should go ? |
| 9 | Yeah but I missed the flipping bit how he killed it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 12 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That same year , for example , Britain 's Sue Barker enjoyed perhaps her finest hour when she defeated the pretty Czechoslovakian , Renata Tomonova in three sets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
| 19 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
| 20 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 21 | And later that afternoon when he drove her home in his car and he seemed unusually quiet , she sensed that he too was remembering that moment . |
| 22 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
| 23 | That afternoon when I arrived at Miss Havisham 's house , it was n't Estella who opened the gate , but a cousin of the old lady 's . |
| 24 | It 's up he did n't actually examine that part where I think there 's a lump . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 27 | Look , you said to me that you wanted to buy some yoghurt in that fancy pot , German yoghurt and they 've got that advert where they go with it . |
| 28 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 29 | Bedroom has got a , it 's in an alcove so you 'll have that piece where it 's bottom of the stairs or wherever , I mean , the , stand on slip mats you 're gon na get that because of the , the airing cupboard is part of the hall , part of the bedroom and nothing you can do about that one , and on the wall it 's just gon na be one length of each room , cut off , perfect , , actually they do n't normally do that , they usually just the measurement , cos I not , never understood why they do n't have measurements there all standard , you guarantee use the one strip of another roll |
| 30 | Yes , I could n't find that figure where you were |