Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His defence came as the Commons Public Accounts Committee decided it would meet on Monday to hold an inquiry into the Guardian 's disclosure of the ‘ sweeteners ’ which were revealed in a confidential memorandum sent to MPs by Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General . |
| 2 | As one expressive arts teacher put it : |
| 3 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 4 | In 1908 , the longstanding split between themselves and the machinemen had been healed : " a happy consummation " and " an event full of promise for the future " , as the local branch of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation put it . |
| 5 | A German Customs officer asked us about our trip and where we came from . |
| 6 | In 1982 the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee asked him to write a paper on the Falklands , which was considered a most notable contribution to the debate in this area . |
| 7 | A BRITISH Airways crew feared they would be sucked out of the cockpit when the windscreen shattered at 33,000ft yesterday . |
| 8 | Yesterday councillors on Hammersmith and Fulham council 's social services committee said they needed to know full details of the case , but that the law required a child 's interests were put first . |
| 9 | Councillors on the social services committee said they needed to know full details of the case , but that the law required a child 's best interests be put first . |
| 10 | This was travelling in style — as one Imperial Airways passenger put it : ‘ I was sorry to get out ; it had been like sitting in a comfortable friendly club . ’ |
| 11 | Horsler 's appointment to control British Coal 's marketing strategy came amid reports that his business experience as national contracts director suited him for a negotiating role . |
| 12 | But the national securities regulator said it was unhappy about the deal over boardroom seats , whereby Mr Spalvins nominates four of the six directors at Bell Resources . |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 14 | MCI Communications Corp said it has gained 10,000 new toll-free telephone numbers since portable numbers were brought in on May 1 , including about 6,500 new numbers acquired from AT&T Co : a total of more than 1m commercial 800 numbers were ‘ officially freed ’ to change . |
| 15 | And MCI Communications Corp said it signed a three-year multi-million-dollar deal to provide voice and data services to VideOcart Inc . |
| 16 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 17 | Our bodies are continually manufacturing chemicals to make us the smelly creatures nature intended us to be . |
| 18 | It 's got one of those letters Father gave you , Father Michael gave you |
| 19 | The Rolling Stones guitarist said he was saddened by her frail health and still cared deeply for Mandy , now aged 22 . |
| 20 | After no more than five minutes Bunny announced they could begin . |
| 21 | Pushed up front by Souness to partner Rush , the former Spurs star showed he had lost none of his old striking instincts by evading two challenges and firing a rising drive high into the net after robbing Apollon 's Scottish exile Dave Kenny . |
| 22 | The Father came out this morning to say that the hall could , one of the first things Father told him was that the hall could n't be insured , I mean it even staggered erm Doris , cos she 's not heard of that before , impressed , I do n't know what impressed is , but |
| 23 | One police officer said he suspected a vast amount of explosive was stockpiled inside one of the buildings and that it exploded due to careless handling . |
| 24 | ‘ As a newcomer to AEA the Strategic Options Exercise gave me the chance to focus on some fundamental issues about the way we manage our activities , ’ he told AEA Times . |
| 25 | For instance , my sister comma who works in a green grocers comma said she saw her with Kim last night . |
| 26 | Within two years television gave it air time and a new spectator sport was born . |
| 27 | Her research on Artemesia continued and having her idea for this play excepted by Soho Poly 's Blueprint young writers programme gave her the chance to take the play into its performance phase by Workstage |
| 28 | She returned to her car , and a passing police patrol told her not to worry as she would get priority . |
| 29 | Sent into to keep the peace between warring communities the first soldiers had no more legal powers than the ordinary citizen until the Special Powers Act gave them power to stop and question , search and arrest without a warrant . |
| 30 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |