Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their football was a credit to Hand , and Cecere ensured that it would at least be rewarded by an extra 30 minutes when he collected Maskell 's pass and tucked the ball behind Steve Sutton . |
| 2 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 3 | Where were those dark Plutonian forces when she needed them to aid and abet her plotting ? |
| 4 | The choice of materials is critical for product security , safety and presentation purposes , but it is the Group 's policy to ensure that all packaging is as ‘ environmentally friendly ’ as possible , and meets the appropriate legislative standards wherever it is sold . |
| 5 | Or maybe even further than that : to those warm sunny days when she sat watching her Daddy and asking him questions and he told her like he always did - ‘ Go and play , there 's a good girl . ’ |
| 6 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 7 | However , they are organizing women refugees in the Central American countries where they have been allowed to set up representations and in Mexico and the US . |
| 8 | The Wembley show was attended by over 10,000 people thousands more on the following two Sundays when it was shown on TV . |
| 9 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 10 | the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer . |
| 11 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 12 | ‘ Räder müssen rollen für den Sieg , ’ screamed the notices in the little Polish stations where we sometimes waited for hours on end . |
| 13 | Alright , this was , this was often the , the case say er , Eastern European industries where they just sort of said right , okay you 're , we 're going to subsidize this erm , plant that produces cars |
| 14 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 15 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 16 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 17 | But I appreciate there were good operational reasons why he did what he did , but that 's just from my own experience . |
| 18 | I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place , while he sees white men going where they please . |
| 19 | Benny realised that there were going to be a great many areas where she would be at a loss . |
| 20 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 22 | After the first day , his manner had thawed , and , no doubt refreshed by his dip in the river , he was in good enough spirits when I had my talk with him . |
| 23 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 24 | There was Lord Weymouth ( without shoes , of course ) John Berkeley , of Berkeley Castle , the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and Pat Smythe , one of my great sporting heroines when she took part in the Bideford Horse Show and I was the cub reporter covering the event . |
| 25 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 26 | Yes — I eat low fat alternatives whenever I can |
| 27 | Those concerned about football hooliganism today idealize the stable post-war years when it was safe to be on the terraces and one could walk the streets at night . |
| 28 | He begins to long for the happy carefree days when he was single . |
| 29 | Soon she would go and he would forget all about her , except perhaps for those wry little moments when he would remember her childish temper and smile to himself in his superior way . |
| 30 | A strong smell of coffee emanating from the basement reminded her that Mrs Crouching , her landlady , was having one of her monthly ‘ evenings ’ — mild social occasions when she and her friends met to talk over important topics of the day . |