Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 2 | Last year 's British election duly wreaked it . |
| 3 | But with a computer right scan it and i if take erm picked a note or whatever you wan na do to it you 've done it . |
| 4 | That 's a flash little powerpack you made there , Tammuz . |
| 5 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 6 | Now , as they dry and become rigid , the insect slowly moves them apart to show the world for the first time the unblemished perfection of its shimmering colours and awaits the dawn of its first day . |
| 7 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 8 | The seller expressly excludes implied provisions , and the buyer expressly includes them . |
| 9 | ducks with a bow-tie on do you ? |
| 10 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 11 | The thread eventually led him out once more to safety . |
| 12 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 13 | The experience rather put me off but I still have the Raleigh with me in Cotherstone , and keep hoping to have another go . |
| 14 | Er mum it does n't matter where everything 's got milk on does it ? |
| 15 | Richard 's achievement of the throne necessarily brings him out into the open , where fraud and concealment are of no use and force alone can preserve him . |
| 16 | on the Children 's tape , although the first sentence inside makes it clear that it 's a leaflet for children/young people . |
| 17 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 18 | Now he is poised here in Paris , sipping a champagne so dry it tastes like flint , on the brink of old age . |
| 19 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 20 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 21 | Well mum only had hers on one the other week . |
| 22 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 23 | He said that dozy cow only decided she was going to try and fucking pull out with a great big juggernaut coming down . |
| 24 | On his wedding night the sight of his wife 's pubic hair so appalled him that he was shocked into sexual abstinence for the rest of his life — not that he lost the urge . |
| 25 | Keep the noise down thank you . |
| 26 | It 's a necklace so lavish it is almost a corsage . |
| 27 | At the end of the war OSS naturally expected it would be allowed to continue in some peacetime role but the FBI , which was jealous of the way OSS had taken over its role of supplying the president with foreign intelligence , pressured President Truman into terminating OSS 's activities , which he did in 1945 . |
| 28 | The growled admission obviously gave him no pleasure , and Gina decided it wiser not to point out that in fact he had n't recalled his generosity until she had prompted his memory ! |
| 29 | Well we know we 've changed the resistance so did we make the resistance more or less ? |
| 30 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |