Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So from next week you start getting paid . |
| 2 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 3 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 4 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 5 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 6 | situation that , you know , hopefully by next Christmas we 'll we 'll maybe be a bit |
| 7 | Fabia cut in only then comprehending that to get home by next Wednesday she would have to leave Mariánské Láznë at the latest by Tuesday — always supposing she had her car back , which was doubtful . |
| 8 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
| 9 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 10 | If you are good at expanding functions up to second order you might like to attempt Example 2.5 . |
| 11 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 12 | Up to last year it would have been justifiable not to show rugby until October . |
| 13 | But up to that time up to last year you were |
| 14 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 15 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 16 | Often at first light he would thrust the bedclothes away and get up to escape those delicious but agonising visions . |
| 17 | Increasingly through last year it became apparent that what CSRG wanted was ‘ basically the same thing as BSDI : ’ an unencumbered commercial system . |
| 18 | and then after last night I completely forgot |
| 19 | yeah an and bra and G-string I went right right , then I said oh by the way I 'm not erm I 'm not doing house swimming this year , I 'm not going to give you the , the pleasure yeah right and they were going oh no you have to do it , you have to do it , I was going yeah right cos I do actually want that again like last year it was just such a nightmare . |
| 20 | Digital Equipment Corp is bringing forward to next month its agreed purchase of a further 4.03% stake in Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , doubling its 4.03% stake , which was bought directly from Olivetti 's controlling shareholders . |