Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest . |
| 2 | We have n't seen him for years the bloody queer . |
| 3 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 4 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |
| 5 | It informed him in letters an inch high that Captain Peter Dawson had been murdered in Cyprus . |
| 6 | His fondness for practical jokes made him on occasions a " tormenting tease " , according to John Hayward , and he never lost his " satirical wit " . |
| 7 | I do n't mind if I have them in figures every time |
| 8 | I do n't , I do n't know anybody that I , I 've I mean I 've never seen a group , I mean you see it on films every now and then you know , a group of people that really , really spark one another off , like in The Big Chill and all the things like that but erm I 've never seen it before . |