Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it .
2 After last night he would be more anxious than ever to have their journey over .
3 " After last night I 'm sure of my own lot .
4 After last night I ca n't deny the desire , but as for love … ’
5 and then after last night I completely forgot
6 Glass as shadow of fourth dimension he wrote Patience , he wrote Do not run ahead of yourself .
7 Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about
8 In particular the vendor should seek assurances that the current shareholders have waived any rights of first call they have on the new shares and , if necessary , are prepared to enter into a shareholder 's agreement with the vendor .
9 ‘ The kind of third degree I was subjected to was not justified .
10 We have expanded the programme in terms of the number of centres where treatment is provided , and at the beginning of next year we shall carry out the first heart transplant operations in Scotland .
11 Before the end of next year it will be possible , with the aid of a pager , to use Notes to achieve two-way wireless transmission of text .
12 Erm er middle of next week I suppose roughly .
13 And you said that by the end of next week you will you will have done those and know whether you want them and whether the companies probably yes ?
14 In all the turmoil of last night she had forgotten to wind it .
15 At the end of last year they had $13 billion and $9 billion of net assets respectively , according to Lipper Analytical Services .
16 The number of confirmed cases of BSE until November of this year totalled 15,698 , whereas for the whole of last year they amounted only — I use the word ’ only ’ relatively — to 14,322 .
17 it 's the twelfth of July of last year they had one .
18 Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM .
19 But in the last quarter of last year we ran into an economic cliff , ’ says Alastair Balfour , of Scotland 's leading business publication , Scottish Business Insider .
20 As the hon. Lady will know , when we resumed diplomatic relations with Syria at the end of last year we discussed that type of question with them and received reassurances which were sufficient to enable us to resume diplomatic relations .
21 Er in November of last year we actually attended fifty five bonfires that got out of hand .
22 As a result of our extensive review of the design and build business in the early part of last year we have reinforced our operational and management capabilities in this area with the appointment of a number of experienced design and build professionals .
23 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
24 Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration .
25 At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed .
26 I know I will have that again this season and with the experience of last year I know that winning the number one plate for 1992 is a reasonable ambition . ’
27 If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions .
28 He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity .
29 A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough .
30 Since the end of last month it became illegal to burn off the stubble after harvest — that leaves farmers with the options of either ploughing it in or looking for alternative uses for it .
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