Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 2 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 3 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 4 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 5 | You 've then got to go below that and say , this was achieved through actual and it is the advertising making the public aware that we are prepared to employ females providing they 're good enough . |
| 6 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 7 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 8 | Again to quote Mailer 's old Harlot essay : ‘ Facts are wiped out by artifacts ; proof enters the logic of counterproof and we are in the dream ; matter breathes next to anti-matter . ’ |
| 9 | So sort of she 's yeah , she 's sort of sensible and she 's tactful as well , she 's being tactful by |
| 10 | It 's a wheezy kind of gurgling and she starts to cough . |
| 11 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 12 | He run very well last time , showed plenty of early and he 's going to be on his toes tonight , but anyway it 's Ashfield Charlie in trap two , the selection for the first leg of the yankee . |
| 13 | When you know that they are sort of negative and they do n't really talk to you as a person , you know that they 're not really bothered about what happens to you . |
| 14 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
| 15 | A researcher found out her favourite colour — a sort of purply-pink and we laid on her favourite drink — Perrier water with cranberry juice . |
| 16 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 17 | Because there are worries that it 's going to er , effect the outcome of this mad ref , referendum , you know they the farmers are sort of desperate and they think they need government help and they think they would n't get it because of the black government so |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the Frankish court , where Alcuin now resided , was favourably disposed towards Aethelred and it may be that Frankish support was what enabled a prolongation of his rule . |
| 19 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 20 | Oh yes , sacks of other and they used to have a proper corner seedman 's shop , which you do n't see about today the er Garden Centre has knocked all that on the nut has n't it really ? |
| 21 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 22 | I used to see the the before it was sort of dirty and you just would n't go would you ? |
| 23 | Adversity breeds a special kind of Christian and it has remarkable members who devote their lives to helping , for instance , people abandoned by the state , such as punks , conscientious objectors or would-be emigrants . |
| 24 | The weight of the church of Canterbury was behind Wihtred and it may have been this which ensured his success . |
| 25 | Well we dug the lot up they 're all growing like mad and I , I 've got an idea that once you 've moved them they do n't , they do n't re-settle very well . |
| 26 | ‘ What have I done ? ’ she said , her voice trembling , ‘ my baby , I 've lost him for good and it 's all your fault , Craig . ’ |
| 27 | And also he 's dropping in with unnecessary and you know , when I 'm short staffed . |
| 28 | Sounds familier to me : - ) At the end of the day , as long as we keep Gav happy with content and we do nt compromise his position etc , then that s ok . |
| 29 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |