Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During adolescent years when we face the responsibilities of adulthood and the prospect of choosing a career and making a living in the world . |
| 2 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 3 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 4 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 5 | David Manderson gave Scarborough the lead after six minutes when he intercepted an off-target Dave Logan shot and clipped the ball over keeper Andy Collett . |
| 6 | Connolly who grabbed the opening try after 10 minutes when he kicked through following good work from Griffiths . |
| 7 | Grace was juggling a full-time job with looking after three children when she got the idea to set up her business . |
| 8 | A quality innings of 46 from Crowe ended after 135 minutes when he had to play a Lewis leg-cutter and the ball carried to second slip Hick , who lunged forward to reach and hold it . |
| 9 | If someone had gone home after 55 minutes when we were well on top and switched on his TV to see the score , he would have thought someone was playing a joke . ’ |
| 10 | Leading scorer Graeme Sharp put Oldham in front after 29 minutes when he headed home a Mark Brennan free-kick . |
| 11 | Florjancic put the game beyond the reach of West Ham after 63 minutes when he raced onto Lombardini 's through ball and easily rounded Miklosko . |
| 12 | Only the thickness of the crossbar prevented Booth from scoring after five minutes when he turned on a Paatelainen pass . |
| 13 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 14 | Yet it took a brilliant save by Martin to keep Hearts out after 27 minutes when he went full stretch to grab McLaren 's header from a Derek Ferguson corner at his left-hand post . |
| 15 | His study was interrupted after two years when he was posted abroad and he rejoined OU three years ago . |
| 16 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 17 | Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back . |
| 18 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 19 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 20 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 21 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 22 | Kieran has now Rostrevor home to Dublin for six months where he intends , as he puts it , to ‘ lie low ’ for a while , writing songs and preparing for his and Frances 's second album . |
| 23 | The crippling difficulty about such ideas whenever they have been raised and examined closely arises from a problem about the nature of federal government . |
| 24 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 25 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 26 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 27 | Sabatini studied seriously the historical events which form the background to his novels but did not hesitate to glamorize the adventures of his characters and to disregard the accounts of professional historians whenever it suited his stories to do so . |
| 28 | Two risings under Henry VII followed attempts to levy taxes ; in 1489 the earl of Northumberland lost his life at the hands of a force of rebellious Yorkshiremen when he was trying to collect the subsidy granted that year , and in 1497 the levying of a tax for a war with Scotland led to a more serious revolt in Cornwall . |
| 29 | Nobody likes answering machines , but if we are out at the bank , or out of normal hours when you telephone , please leave a clear note of your name and telephone number with your message . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a lot of emotional problems when I was younger ’ she told him , ‘ but I 'm fine now . |