Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh dear me sorry thanks Mike phew . |
2 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
3 | As with all visitors to such events I decided , first to look for my old pals Brucie and Tarby , the funniest men in golf . |
4 | My sincere thanks to my amanuensis Simon Rose , to my personal assistants Cressida and Catherine and to my colleague Bargepole , for showing me the consequences of taking the wrong turning in life . |
5 | And proud dad Alex said last night : ‘ When I arrived down here from Aberdeen my then assistants Archie Knox and Brian Kidd said I would be silly to let a good player go just because he was my son . |
6 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
7 | My oldest brothers Jack and Charlie had turned up and were shuffling about , getting in everyone 's way , and Dad lit the candles so that the flickering glow shed an eerie light . |
8 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
9 | My two weeks VR training finished , I returned to Blackpool the next day to start putting on the Ice Show at the famous Pleasure Beach — quite a change ! |
10 | Finally , now that glasnost has arrived , I am happy to acknowledge the collaborative assistance throughout of my Soviet friends Sergei Rozanov , Victor Surkov and Masha Barash . |
11 | The formula for opening a case is : ‘ May it please your lordship(s) , I am appearing with Mr/Miss. — for the plaintiff ( prosecution ) ( appellant ) , and my learned friends Mr — and Mr — are for the defendant ( respondent ) ( Crown ) . |
12 | Both Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher have appointed BBC chairmen for personal reasons rather than suitable qualifications , and in 1988 the Conservative Government was strongly condemned for appointing its political partisans Lord Rees-Mogg ( to the Chairmanship of the BSC ) and Lord Chalfont ( to the Deputy-Chairmanship of the IBA ) . |
13 | Political column Uniting Europe means rejecting its economic policies Ken Livingstone |
14 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
15 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
16 | Our author , entirely uninfluenced by the dismissive judgements of her distinguished compatriots Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob , hankers after evidence that lends colour to the possibility in principle of an imprinting of somatic characteristics upon the genome , believing in particular that the comparatively recent discovery of the possibility of mapping RNA upon DNA ( ’ reverse transcription ’ ) entitles her to think in terms of ‘ reverse translation ’ — that is a mapping of amino acid into nucleotide sequences . |
17 | The champions face the awesome job of wiping out a three-goal deficit against their German counterparts Stuttgart at Elland Road tonight . |
18 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
19 | Her French visitors Jacques and Sophie keep their fur hats on in bed . |
20 | With a wry shrug of her slim shoulders Laura made herself a ham sandwich before wandering back into what the estate agent 's particulars had referred to as ‘ a huge reception-room ’ . |
21 | Straight off Concorde from the United States following a lecture tour , she visited The Daily Telegraph 's party at the Savoy Hotel , and then continued the night at a party in Westminster given in her honour by her old friends Lord McAlpine and Sir Gordon Reece . |
22 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
23 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
24 | Asked where the company would be looking for its future clients Mr Ainslie stressed the importance of Europe , particularly Switzerland , Germany and Italy . |
25 | Microsoft Corp formally launched its widely-previewed Windows NT operating system at the Comdex-attached Windows World in Atlanta , Georgia , yesterday . |
26 | Microsoft Corp formally launched its widely-previewed Windows NT operating system at Windows World in Atlanta , Georgia , last week . |
27 | In her younger days Elizabeth was a passionate girl . |
28 | In her later novels Brooke-Rose uses techniques such as these to integrate different discourses , but in The Languages of Love linguistic transgression signals a lack of honesty and integrity . |
29 | Shortly after a delay in her monthly courses Emilia fainted and both knew that , at last , she was pregnant . |
30 | Using her natural talents Miss Drew provided would-be subscribers to the ‘ postal porn service ’ with a synopsis of the productions . |