Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons I like this club , sir , ’ I said , ‘ is all these extraordinary old Anglo-Saxon names that one rarely comes across any more . |
| 2 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
| 3 | And I think I 'll stop right there with even more comments , erm , in case I lose that contract too . |
| 4 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But I think a lot of them were genuinely concerned , as in my case I think this person was genuinely worried about me because I 'd had , it was my third child and I I do think she was er worried about me because er you know you do n't want to keep having babies and losing them but I was n't worried about , I was worried about myself , to say I was n't worried that 's stupid , but er we just hoped and hoped and kept hoping . |
| 6 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 7 | As Wimpol becomes increasingly international in technology and operations I intend that interchange of personnel of all disciplines will increase between the regional bases of USA , UK and Singapore . |
| 8 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 9 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 10 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 11 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 12 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 13 | Mum I 've that thing with a hole in it . |
| 14 | Mum I want some pop |
| 15 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 16 | Unless of course I have derma-optical perception . |
| 17 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 18 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 19 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 20 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 21 | Returning to the office in the afternoon I write legal advice and comments on the proposed homelessness policy . |
| 22 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 23 | Looking at the other titles I infer that mine is the only lecture on literature , and logically , perhaps , my title should be ‘ Literature as communication ’ . |
| 24 | It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it . |
| 25 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 26 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 27 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 28 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 29 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 30 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |