Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife .
2 Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile .
3 The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it .
4 Your article on hedgehogs in the March issue reminded me of an incident last summer .
5 The four , who re-release their single Thank You For The Music next week , split up 10 years ago .
6 The flagship of the British labour movement , nothing less , that 's the vision , that 's what we want to try and create and that 's what we want to come back to you and tell you about the prospects next year .
7 But the thing is if you 're walking up er the driveway of a house , you do n't want to be caught and you do n't want to be seen and you , you think you 're under cover of darkness and then the big halogen floodlight comes on , puts you in a spotlight next door .
8 Then he said , ‘ It was you in the passage last night , was n't it ? ’
9 They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ?
10 ‘ Was that you on the phone last night ? ’
11 Now that list is provided with you on the day first day of your assignment .
12 Brigadier Gatehouse is coming to start you on the shooting next week and Miss Bedwelty is coming to discuss the riding arrangements today . ’
13 ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
14 Was you at the Park last night , madam ?
15 Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division .
16 She 's the girl who let me into the house last might …
17 It was therefore something of a surprise last Wednesday to amble into Darlington 's new Thai restaurant and find four-fifths of the D&S editorial staff seated serendipitously to lunch .
18 Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ?
19 Well I 'm not we , well did they was that one in the fog last night ?
20 If at one in the morning last night Tod had had his brain switched on , he could have had his minders sort me out there and then .
21 No Should have had one in the bedroom last night with next door upstairs .
22 He punched me in the head first , from the side . ’
23 My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House .
24 Mrs Lennox said Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin , Air Member for Personnel , told them in a letter last month that their application was ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ before they had even submitted estimates from insurance companies of what their children 's education was likely to cost .
25 I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night .
26 But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat .
27 The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx .
28 Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold .
29 if you 're interested , then we can do that in the bath , can you put them in the box first
30 She killed herself at the theatre last night . ’
  Next page