Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 2 | straight and erm a lot of people make that , very experienced sales people still make that mistake cost they 're not used to it . |
| 3 | Look we could make some chocolate ones it only makes twelve . |
| 4 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 5 | Given different investor preferences they will all obtain maximum utility somewhere along the CML . |
| 6 | So we got this phone call he said hello Mr I said yes . |
| 7 | Were they given this breathing space it would give them a chance to be less edgy about Olwyn . |
| 8 | Problem solving : Given some image coordinates I , the robot looks up in R for the pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. It moves all joint angles to J' . |
| 9 | When you buy a small can of frozen concentrated orange juice you arc getting the fibre-free contents of a large quantity of oranges , at a cost of more than 200 calories per can . |
| 10 | It could buy that second car you 've always promised yourself . |
| 11 | I 've just come to realise : this is my life , I do n't know how long I 've got , I might as well enjoy that time being me , because I 'm stuck with this body , this face , this skin colour ; I have to make the most of it . |
| 12 | Lick this lick lick it |
| 13 | ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . |
| 14 | If we build public sector houses we will give them the homes they need . |
| 15 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 16 | She wants some vegetable samosas she said I do n't want meat ones , vegetable samosas . |
| 17 | If they want Second Division football they should support us now . |
| 18 | To meet tough emission laws they 'll need the full technological fix that truck motors are getting , and that 's complex and expensive . |
| 19 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 20 | The Cabinet on May 3 decided to implement a decision taken in February by the High Committee of State ( HCS ) to the effect that " associations of a political nature and mass organizations " ( i.e. especially those of the former ruling party , the National Liberation Front — FLN ) should surrender any state properties they held . |
| 21 | For any desktop publishing package to work properly and display correct line endings it must have a screen font that matches the font in the printer ; ie the width tables must match . |
| 22 | However , from experiments using thromboxane synthetase inhibitors it appears that when platelets are activated and the prostaglandin cascade is triggered by release of endogenous arachidonic acid then the endoperoxides generated exert their proaggregatory effects by their conversion to the more potent compound thromboxane A 2 . |
| 23 | Using sorcerous building techniques they craft mighty cities of tall white towers that blend into the surrounding landscape like groves of great pale trees . |
| 24 | She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away . |
| 25 | But he 's made this carbon thing you see , it was n't for the the apostles could n't it ! |
| 26 | Auntie May , though , said there 's only a quartet , and after he 's done some solo pieces he 's playing with them . |
| 27 | At Level Three students will identify personal development goals they wish to acquire through residential experience and will take responsibility , along with other group members for the planning , organising and implementation of a residential experience . |
| 28 | So I mean I think it 'd great Guide Friday you run around little flag in the air , I 've seen them in London and you can do that and and and people get so fit . |
| 29 | When it is necessary for us to replace cross-grain cornice mouldings we have found that there is no satisfactory alternative to the time-tested , original method , i.e. saw-cutting and then finishing with large radius carving gouges and plenty of sanding . |
| 30 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |