Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 2 | Er er Chairman thank you for listening to use of the |
| 3 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 4 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 5 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 6 | Baddam 's experience qualified him for his most ambitious known project — an abridgement of the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions . |
| 7 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 8 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 9 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 10 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 11 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 12 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 13 | There 's little in Marshall 's CV to prepare you for the way this story , awash with sentimental pitfalls , is turned into a deeply stirring , full blooded drama . |
| 14 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 15 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 16 | ‘ I had some problems with my papers , but Ramon 's friend sorted them for me . |
| 17 | Mr Gill 's wife nominated him for the prize for his purchase of the ‘ Astronomicon ’ , a poem in Latin verse on astronomy and astrology of around 1455–60 by Basinio da Parma , dedicated to Malatesta Novello , lord of Cesena , and probably made in Rimini . |
| 18 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 19 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | You need a sound night 's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow . |
| 21 | Nicholas 's voice checked him for a moment but when he turned he saw that the taxi driver was out of the cab and attempting to restrain him . |
| 22 | Once , Barry 's daughter asked him for an autograph . |
| 23 | so loyal was he that he rejected his cousins , the UNICORNS , when Alexander 's men attacked them for their horns . |
| 24 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 25 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 26 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 27 | Erm Lorraine did it for me and er to analyze it , honestly if you can hear that Moira it 's classic ! |
| 28 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 29 | After he survived the vote , Mr Major went to the Whips ' office to thank them for their help . |
| 30 | This is why the experts of Jesus ' time criticized him for healing the sick on the Sabbath , accepting social outcasts , or infringing the fine points of the law . |