Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Higher taxes , the most sensible route , are probably out — both for the usual political reasons and because this year nobody wants to reopen last October 's budget agreement . |
| 2 | When you change the behaviour pattern which has become second nature to you , the world around you will react differently . |
| 3 | Using a system which consults all the staff and many advisers from all over Kent , Surrey and East Sussex , we have nominated five prize winners in very special competition which seeks to predict next year 's most important people and places . |
| 4 | I hate going shopping with them , she wants to go next Saturday , I said fuck that . |
| 5 | There are more members — and we receive more letters — for Steffi 's fan club service , than for any other player , even Andre Agassi , who has overtaken last year 's previously most popular male player , Stefan Edberg . |
| 6 | She has won first prize in international competitions in Paris and Flanders . |
| 7 | she said but how many of you , she said you 've a daughter ai n't ya or summat , I said at the minute , she gets married next April , by heck she said does n't time fly she says , I remember her coming and and from the paper shop |
| 8 | She 's got last year 's basic . |
| 9 | why should a builder , because she 's bought second tiles , take time to sort out the duff one 's |
| 10 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 11 | So often he has played second fiddle to Wright and notched only nine goals last season to his partner 's 30 . |
| 12 | Rang the landlord the next morning , Saturday morning , and , apparently he has rang last night , and your wife Debbie took my drink away and away , I said that 's fair enough , so he said . |
| 13 | If he wants a place in Norway 's World Cup squad next summer , he has to play first team football . |
| 14 | It has started first time without exception so far , and pulls smoothly when cold . |
| 15 | Canon Inc says it plans to resurrect NeXT Computer Inc 's Redwood City , California workstation business . |
| 16 | Canon Inc says it plans to resurrect NeXT Computer Inc 's Redwood City , California workstation business . |
| 17 | Energis is the name chosen by the UK 's National Grid Company for the telephone service it plans to launch next year , delivered along fibre optic lines that will run along its 4,200 miles of overhead power lines and 360 miles of underground cable : the company — owned by the 12 regional UK electricity distributors , hopes to get the go-ahead for its planned service in a few weeks , and has heavyweights Gordon Owen , formerly of Mercury Communications Ltd , and David Dey , formerly British Telecommunications Plc on board to run the business . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , splits in the Cabinet are rumoured as it meets to discuss next year 's Government spending programme . |
| 19 | He gets married next month and one of his first tasks yesterday was to inform his wife-to-be that four days after they return from their honeymoon he 'll be off for two months on a 13-game tour . |
| 20 | Well he gets paid next Friday so I 'll |
| 21 | It follows restructuring last year which created business units to run departments . |
| 22 | At each mealtime eat enough to satisfy your appetite , even if it means having second helpings of vegetables . |
| 23 | That 's where he 's away this weekend to her place , and then he 's going next weekend because there 's some wedding do or something er so he 's to go next weekend , he goes there , stays with her parents and then she 'll come down the weekend after that and stay at our house . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll let you know what 's happened first thing tomorrow , ’ said the fräulein . |