Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America . |
| 2 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 3 | Yeah , it just goes to the bottom of the pack , but erm there 's numbers up there , you 've got ta collect them to spell out sex maniac |
| 4 | At the door Gerald Seymour-Strachey said in his most patrician manner : ‘ I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know when Hilda Machin 's funeral is . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked why Sir John Santerre had such close links with Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 6 | I mean not Bronze Age , or whatever , and a calf was eating the grass on the top as though — well , as though it did n't matter . ’ |
| 7 | I mean perhaps Saturday morning is n't the right time to phone but it was |
| 8 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 9 | ( Shampoo this one while I comb out Mrs Brown . ) |
| 10 | I met there Mr Philpot who will paint the ceiling in my bedroom … ’ |
| 11 | and erm , then when I got home Monday night , that was how it was just left , you know , so there was about a |
| 12 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 13 | I tried both novice mode and expert mode . |
| 14 | ‘ Just before I phoned up Sir Bryan . ’ |
| 15 | Now if you look at the nineteenth , which is a Sunday , it says mailing cut , now this again , you know , every month I send out renewal mailing , erm , for people who need diaries . |
| 16 | ‘ I sense when warp portals open , ’ she remarked in Jaq 's general direction . |
| 17 | Dawn ‘ beat the twilight into flakes of fire ’ as I cycled up Gleann Meinich . |
| 18 | Will someone bring back Des Walker 's international form ! |
| 19 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 20 | When I came back Mrs Goreng was coming down the steps with her chauffeur , who was a one-armed sergeant with a pistol . |
| 21 | When I came back Mrs Ainsworth was still stroking the kitten . |
| 22 | I put down sodium chlorate and poisoned everything , reducing it to two acres of brown earth . ’ |
| 23 | I drove back Friday afternoon , three and half hours , , after conference . |
| 24 | I drove down Bragg Boulevard , past dark dives and tattoo parlours and the Park & Pawn . |
| 25 | I strolled down Chelsea Terrace to find the sign in the window of the local greengrocer 's . |
| 26 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 27 | Life lines BEFORE I DIE AGAIN Chad Varah Constable , £17.50 Veronica Groocock |
| 28 | you know , we would li I do n't mind people being in it , but I 'd rather , you know , can you imagine that er the Greek priest we had in the very first print |
| 29 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |
| 30 | Indeed , I informed both Stoke City and Tring United that they were interested in him . |