Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And you got a shock off them last time so I 'm not doing it .
2 ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops .
3 ‘ Who paid five pound for thee seven year back ? ’
4 paying for them all year long ?
5 ‘ We run errands for them all day long , ’ Stella retorted .
6 Erm the law college have expressed an interest , and I 'm temping for them this week so I 'll chase them .
7 Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow .
8 I dare say she 'll marry one of them some day soon .
9 We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later .
10 Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill .
11 If you ca n't spell and some of you last week even on Monday we because there were numbers of boys away we had that odd test .
12 ‘ I have heard much of you this year past , Marion Maclean , ’ he said distantly .
13 It does not bear thinking about and yet we think of it all day long in this pretty place , not noticing the sun and flowers .
14 So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get .
15 I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back .
16 We did n't hear about you first time round . ’
17 They 're better for you that way though ai n't they ?
18 If … if , though , she does n't let you stay with them , then Mother will try to arrange for you some place else .
19 Great Britain are the reigning champions , but with the Barcelona Games appraoching fast , the odds are against them striking gold again .
20 BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines .
21 BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines .
22 And then it came turn and er was er speaking quite well when this girl behind us this wee well along side us was thumbs up on him all the time you know he was doing well and that .
23 See if its sweet enough , I 'm not putting much sugar in and I ca n't carry both in , I dare n't carry any thing in with me left arm yet
24 The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’
25 Cos we were messing about with them other day when he fetched them in .
26 He was with them last night when they played Shrewsbury ( not playing ) .
27 I ca n't figure out what 's up with you young man today
28 Should be with you any time now . ’
29 did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess
30 That 's the one where I marshalled with you last year actually was n't it ?
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