Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 3 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 4 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 5 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 6 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 7 | Wattling , bring me those saucers there . ’ |
| 8 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 9 | You ai n't given me any tickets lately . |
| 10 | They told him to meet them two nights later and threatened frightful consequences if he should fail to appear . |
| 11 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 12 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |
| 14 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 15 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 16 | Go to his office and make a scene , or send him some flowers there with a really embarrassing message , or something . |
| 17 | She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink . |
| 18 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 19 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 20 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 21 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 22 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the authoritarian nature of the regime has won it many enemies both inside and outside the country , creating an atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue amongst the educated elite . |
| 24 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 25 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 26 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 27 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 28 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 29 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 30 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |