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

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1 and they er sort of X-rayed me , took a urine sample , took a blood sample , er Doctor
2 Mind you it 's a , I 've be I 've been and had a look rou er round there this dinnertime , quarter to eleven sh er quarter to twelve she 's supposed to start .
3 I think in a er incident like that I do n't it matters whether it 's male or female .
4 Erm perhaps I could answer that Chairman by saying that the policy I 've suggested from the Humberside structure plan would er would I think cover that er problem in that it starts off by saying , Proposals for industry and commerce that are not in accordance with the relevant policies of this plan will not normally be permitted .
5 At the far side we used Hafpor 's truck to speed-check us , and in the light wind were easily making 45kph .
6 As the subject of Harry Bates 's statue of 1890 she is transformed and re-made by Rose Garrard , as the generative point of her reworking of the myth of the first woman in the videos Tumbled Frame(1984) and Pandora the Bringer of Gifts ( 1982 ) .
7 After Edward II 's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates .
8 After Rizzio 's murder in 1566 it became the residence of Mary , Queen of Scots .
9 In Gerard 's Herball of 1633 it is described : ‘ The Floure of Bristowe or None-such … was called Lychnis , that is a Torch or such-like light , cleere , bright and light-giving . ’
10 Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease .
11 I if that is understood and that is accepted that would meet Mr 's point in that it is , it is in fact in order and , and is not interfering with another panel 's responsibilities .
12 When Adam Peters and Ben Watkins changed their band 's name to Sunsonic they maintained this virtue to release a couple of refined , ambient , floating singles .
13 ‘ Oh , yer rotten liar , ’ breathed the young woman , a shabby black straw hat on her head , ‘ I never snaffled no gent 's wallet in all me born days . ’
14 It differed from The Wedding Present 's title in that it did not contain a comma .
15 Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’
16 By the time Bomberg applied for a war artist 's commission in 1939 he was a sadly neglected figure .
17 On the king 's behalf in 1276 he urged Llewellyn , Lord of Snowdonia , to acknowledge Edward as his feudal lord , and in February 1277 he excommunicated Llewellyn for refusing an offer of mediation .
18 Amalgamemnon is parodic in Genette 's sense in that it makes punctual and systematic alterations on a pre-existent ‘ noble ’ text of the past , and in Bakhtin 's sense because with regard to sex roles its ‘ orientation ’ is directly opposed to that of Herodotus .
19 During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 .
20 Reviewing Henry Adams 's Autobiography in 1919 he attacked the Bostonian world and , covertly , himself , as he savaged Boston Unitarianism along with Adams who ‘ abandoned lecturing at Harvard ’ , and whose researches into primitive mythology ‘ turned to ashes in his mouth ’ .
21 Arnold Leese , who was to become the undis-puted leader of the IFL in 1932 , was highly critical of Dell 's social credit views about Hitler as a supposed Jewish agent , but after Beamish 's death in 1948 he used part of his inheritance to revive the Britons .
22 On his father 's death in 1621 he was adopted by his uncle John Browne , a merchant tailor , from whom he eventually inherited a substantial fortune .
23 Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships .
24 On William Herland 's death in 1375 he received the office of disposer of the king 's works of carpentry at £18 5s. a year and a robe .
25 On his father 's death in 1696 he inherited estates in Buckinghamshire .
26 At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai .
27 On Forman 's death in 1611 she approached Gresham through her confidante Anne Turner [ q.v. ] , and he employed his skill in efforts to render the earl impotent and to win the queen 's goodwill .
28 Following McDougall 's death in 1961 he agreed to become Chairman , but he was unable to find enough time for the demands of this office and resumed the less onerous duties of the Presidency in 1965 .
29 On his father 's death in 1723 he assumed the surname and estate of his great-grandfather Sir George Mackenzie , baronet [ q.v. ] of Rosehaugh , also acquiring property in Angus , Perthshire , and London .
30 She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey .
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