Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can work on the assumption , anyway , and I 'll make discreet inquiries when I get to the office tomorrow . |
| 2 | Rain worried how long she would bear the bruises , whether it would still be cold enough in London for her to wear high-necked sweaters when she got back . |
| 3 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 4 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | Well last time you got some vouchers right you |
| 6 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |
| 7 | She helped some bairns when she was living in the Australian outback . |
| 8 | Because we encountered similar accounts repeatedly I am justified in pointing to shared models or myths . |
| 9 | 10:5–7 ) He used similar words when he appointed the Seventy . |
| 10 | On 16th April 1973 the estate agents had written to the defendants drawing attention to the existence of the counter-inflationary measures then in force and concluding with the sentence : ‘ I would also confirm that should you be successful in acquiring these premises then it will be necessary for us to look to you for payment of our fees as based on the commercial scales of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , I agree , ‘ if you mentioned clubs to most indie bands 18 months ago they would have spat in your face ’ , but only because the elitists controlled it . |
| 12 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |
| 13 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 14 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 15 | Well , do n't you sometimes expect to find mysterious deaths wherever you go ? ’ |
| 16 | Suggest several reasons why you think many people prefer to live in southern England and near London . |
| 17 | They fixed two nights when they were not riding . |
| 18 | If this has three cables , then A is on a spur fed from B , but if B has two cables then you must check back further ( to socket C ) , to see whether A and B are run as an old two-socket spur from C , or are part of a radial circuit . |
| 19 | And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over . |
| 20 | Gloucester City councillor Anthony Gilberthorpe was awarded £60,000 when he sued the Daily Mirror and the Sun for suggesting six years ago he 'd undergone an AIDS test in America . |
| 21 | Another writer on the police met similar problems when he wished to write and publish . |
| 22 | Patsy , 24 , wearing a loose-fitting dress and comfy sandals , filled eight carriers when she unloaded her trolley . |
| 23 | A 76-YEAR-OLD doctor suffered extensive injuries when he was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing at Bebington Village , Wirral magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 24 | For example , Denise Jodelet is expressing universal themes when she writes that ‘ the concept of social representations denotes … the knowledge of common-sense ’ , and that it refers to ‘ practical thought . |
| 25 | No she was saying they have built some shops where they are . |
| 26 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
| 27 | We installed bigger radiators everywhere we went . |
| 28 | Written 100 years ago it is performed here in the costumes of that period . |
| 29 | Written 100 years ago it is performed here in the costumes of that period . |
| 30 | In hospital Andrew suffered serious side-effects when he was given a drug to prevent infection . |