Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr got erm I understand that no convictions , even for armed robbery itself . |
| 2 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 3 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 4 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 5 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 6 | Rawls ' Kantian constructivist approach to ethics suggest an argument for political neutrality which is in part independent of the one criticised above and which turns on autonomy : |
| 7 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 8 | Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion . |
| 9 | Underground groups which had operated inside Kuwait against the Iraqi forces issued demands for political reform which mirrored calls made by exiled opposition leaders . |
| 10 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , you really ought to do something about that razor you 've been using ! ’ |
| 12 | I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths . |
| 13 | Have you read about that boy who 's his |
| 14 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ What about that man who kept buying copies of Fight the Good Fight by Angela Truebridge ? ’ |
| 16 | " Because you 're still thinking about that girl who works with beggars and ne'er-do-wells at Yelton , I suppose ! |
| 17 | I think perhaps , I shall contact Cyril , and say how about that drink we we 've agreed to , we , we 've enjoyed together ? |
| 18 | When he thought about that voice he felt he would like to murder her with a knife himself . |
| 19 | What about that child who had screamed in Act Two , and the hissing that had followed … and the outbreak of sobbing when Tinkerbell drank the poison and Peter announced she was dying … and the sigh that had rippled … yes , rippled through the theatre when Peter , alone on the rock in the lagoon , heard the mermaid 's melancholy cry as the moon began to rise over Never-Never Land . |
| 20 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's about that bird who went missing … |
| 22 | About that bit it 's that bit . |
| 23 | Now a message has come in , about that pyometra you did . |
| 24 | ‘ And what you said this morning … about that manuscript I gave you . |
| 25 | ‘ Well I 'm not , ’ said Robert , ‘ and I want to know what you 've found out about that manuscript I gave you ! ’ |
| 26 | And about that manuscript you gave me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 28 | GOODBYE COLUMBUS is six hours of TV about that bloke what invented America , ranging from COLUMBUS O about Columbus , Ohio to SOAPS AND SALSA , about Latin American soap operas . |
| 29 | yeah I thought about , about that amp you know |
| 30 | admitted that she did n't know and it 's about that department what 's |