Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's meet for lunch tomorrow by Little Ben at one o'clock . |
| 2 | He is very helpful financially " but does not he ! p Lisa with much else . |
| 3 | The discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929 completely changed the discussion about its origin . |
| 4 | Cakes for the stall in aid of the Petersfield Hospital may be left either with the treasurer at 14 Syers Road or with the president at 6 Forest Rise on Friday , April 17th in readiness for the sale on Easter Saturday at 8.30 a.m . |
| 5 | I confirm that I will bring the Parish Council accounts etc to the Council Offices Garstang at 9 a.m. on Tuesday 7th May as agreed in our recent telephone conversation . |
| 6 | Second , Corinth was sacked by Lucius Mummius in 146 BC with Roman thoroughness , not to rise again for a century . |
| 7 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 8 | The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny , rich and greedy elite around him . |
| 9 | ‘ And you are both ready for the bazaar , I see , ’ he said , for he had already watched them carry through the packing-cases filled with their work , ready to be transported on Mr Hanson the grocer 's small cart , due to call at Vetch Street at ten o'clock , for them to start setting out the stall . |
| 10 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 11 | The Prime Minister , very peripatetic in this crisis , went through to 11 Downing Street at 9 o'clock one morning to persuade the Chancellor that it was necessary . |
| 12 | As I have said , Harold Wilson usually summoned me to Downing Street for 8 p.m . |
| 13 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 14 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 15 | There was a standing arrangement : if no smoke was rising from the chimney of Low Birk Hatt by eleven o'clock in the morning the Fawcetts should come to investigate . |
| 16 | After the virtual abandonment of the Knossos Labyrinth in 1380 BC , that power retreated underground , to the cave sanctuaries . |
| 17 | I was sent to The Children 's Service , usually held at St. Mary Magdalene 's Church in Gigant Street at 9.30 am . |
| 18 | The defendant was driving in Jermyn Street at 1.55 a.m. on 11 May 1990 when he was stopped and given a roadside breath test which proved positive . |
| 19 | At The Old White Horse Pub , 261 Brixton Road from 6 pm — 11 pm . |
| 20 | Manchester Women 's Bisexual Group meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at the Gay Centre , Sidney Street at 7.30–9.30 pm . |
| 21 | I have an appointment with Dr Dingle at 5 o'clock , so it seemed pointless going back to the Oxfordshire cottage last night . |
| 22 | Several special trains of American frozen meat arrived every week , leaving Southampton at 6 p.m. , arriving at Nine Elms at 10 p.m. , and being at the market by midnight . |
| 23 | A charabanc would be leaving from Williamson Square at ten o'clock . |
| 24 | They drove up the ramp from the underground car park at Scotland Yard and out on to Victoria Street at 8.40 p.m . |
| 25 | ‘ It fully reflected a contribution made by Mr Ward in this hugely important business transaction , ’ said his counsel , Andrew Trollope , QC . |
| 26 | For example : ‘ May I have an appointment with Mr Block at 4 p.m. on Monday next for a short back and sides ? ’ is preferable to : ‘ I want an appointment please , ’ which leads to a string of questions , ‘ Which day ? ’ |
| 27 | well I said we 'd pick up aunty Jean at twenty too eight |
| 28 | Talk of a policy U-turn or reversal , associated with Mr Heath from 1972 onwards , or of ‘ ungovernability ’ , so prevalent in the 1970s , has disappeared from the political vocabulary in Britain . |
| 29 | The order to mobilise was received at Stony Stratford at 6 pm on 5 August 1914 , and by 10 pm 60% of the Mounted Field Ambulance had reported to their Headquarters at the Cock Hotel . |
| 30 | Russell answered Mr. Mendez in Spanish then , just a few words , and Mr. Mendez said , in English , " We use John Russell . |