Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1943 I joined Northumberland , New Zealand Shipping Co vessel , and crossed the Atlantic to Panama , through to New Zealand and back again . |
| 2 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry I know Andy would n't normally say things like that . |
| 4 | By the way , I really am sorry I hit Gavin . |
| 5 | Oh I 'm sorry I misunderstood John , then I 've |
| 6 | ‘ Shortly after that I met Ernest Owen in London at a big Rubery Owen function . |
| 7 | I heard the church clock strike two and some time after that I saw Matthew Choak 's little van go by . |
| 8 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 9 | For this I thank Selina 's duty-free perfumes and bath essences , the laundry-fresh tang of her clothes , the costly oiliness of her flesh and its smooth secretions . |
| 10 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 11 | First then , continuing our series of programmes on applications of computers , today we 're going to look at the so-called microprocessor , and to help me do this I have Doctor Fred Halsall and Doctor Paul Lister , who are engineers and specialists in this particular area . |
| 12 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 13 | ‘ American blues artists did n't tour Australia back then ; it was only when I visited London in 1972 I saw BB King — that justtook me apart . |
| 14 | In July 1993 I left St Aidans in year 10 and moved to Suffolk . |
| 15 | And she 'd got , we was always very interested I played Puck in Midsummer 's Night 's Dream at school and all that kind of thing . |
| 16 | I mean it 's interesting I mean Cynthia raised that point yesterday , to which the answer , I mean I 'm afraid I have to say th th the glib answer is , why are you telling me you need a minimum number of two members of staff at lunch time , for a full time office in the centre of town , surrounded by bloody phone calls , in school buildings , when you send one single member of staff aged twenty one , |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I cursed Mavis too . |
| 18 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 19 | Second , they 're no longer played by ugly gits like Charles Bronson , but by pretty ethnics such as Lou Diamond Phillips who can plausibly claim to have Cherokee blood somewhere in their veins ( it was this which landed Phillips the lead in The Dark Wind , the recent Robert Redfordbacked adaptation of one of Tony Hillerman 's Navajo detective novels ) . |
| 20 | It is this which causes Birmingham to be scorned . |
| 21 | A complaint made then that the definition of ‘ Scotland ’ did not mention the Island of Rockall Act 1972 which made Rockall part of Scotland has had effect ; the reviewer now ungraciously points out that the discussion of what is ‘ England ’ does not mention section 10 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 , which incorporates the tunnel system up to the ‘ frontier ’ into England . |
| 22 | Well , thanks to Dr Leitch 's ministrations our enteritis beds were nearly empty which freed Sister Murphy . |
| 23 | Prior to this she played Ophelia in both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Theatr Clwyd and on tour . |
| 24 | Had Darwin known about this you see Darwin could have turned on his critics and said , look , in the first place you 're quite wrong about genetics , there is no or at least there does n't have to be because mutations occur as errors or changes in the base sequences in , in the genetic code . |
| 25 | It was a pity Mollie had a day in hospital whilst you were in Scotland , but I am glad the holiday was a success otherwise — I do wanted you to like Scotland . |
| 26 | He looked a pale shadow of the commanding centre half who helped Denmark win the European championship , but said : ‘ I wo n't crack under the pressure . |
| 27 | On 6 December 1881 she married Ernest David , son of George Bazett Colvin Leverson , a diamond merchant . |
| 28 | It was people like this who crucified Jesus , because they hated the mercy he showed to the common people . |
| 29 | Amongst those few who knew Zulfiqar Khan , and what work he did , news of his killing spread fast . |
| 30 | Willie Watson , 211 appearances for Sunderland and later player/manager at Halifax Town , was one of the few who represented England at both sports . |