Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 2 | They used to say , well I try and get my er my legs up for half an hour in the afternoon , but that 'd be about as much as th they 'd get in the way of rest . |
| 3 | Preparing for the off in the London Marathon last April , WCUK Nottingham project manager , John Holder , got his running shoes on to complete the 26 mile 394 yard distance for the first time . |
| 4 | Cracks up to half an inch thick are the unmistakeable signs of subsidence . |
| 5 | There were lights on in all the windows . ’ |
| 6 | There 's old mattresses up against all the walls and someone 's stuck hundreds of egg boxes on the ceiling . |
| 7 | Diaries out for all the US conferences and shows scheduled for the spring and summer : Object Expo , New York Hilton , April 19 to 23 ; Win-Dev , Boston University Corporate Education Center , April 26 to 30 ; DB/Expo 93 , Moscone Center , San Francisco , May 3 to 7 ; Unix Reseller Show , Dallas Convention Center , May 4 to 6 ; C++ in Industry , Boston University Corporate Development Center , May 24 to 26 ; Comdex Spring/Windows World , Atlanta Convention Center , May 24 to 28 ; NeXTWorld Expo , Moscone Center , San Francisco , May 25 to 27 ; DECUS , Georgia World Congress Center , June 5 to 11 ; Xhibition , San Jose Convention Center , June 7 to 11 ; UniForum 's Mainframe Downsizing in the Financial Industry , Hyatt Regency Chicago , June 8 to 10 , Grand Hyatt New York , June 15 to 17 ; Client-Server World and Database World , Hynes Convention Center , Boston , June 14 to 16 ; PC Expo , Javits Center , New York , June 29 to July 1 ; SCO Forum , University of California , Santa Cruz , August 14 to 19 ; and Interex , Moscone Center , San Francisco , September 19 to 23 . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 9 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 10 | These ‘ raincoats ’ were nine times out of ten the tea boys of the A&R department and were nine times out of ten a complete waste of time . |
| 11 | And I 've , nine times out of ten a good , local , electrical retailer will do it there and then . |
| 12 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 13 | Even when brains are being removed from their dead owners and implanted into living people , or fiends from outer space being fought to a standstill , nine times out of ten the magic weapon is the result of dubious chemistry . |
| 14 | These ‘ raincoats ’ were nine times out of ten the tea boys of the A&R department and were nine times out of ten a complete waste of time . |
| 15 | In nine times out of ten the vehicle concerned will be a motor bike or a motor car . |
| 16 | nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it . |
| 17 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 18 | ‘ Six times out of seven the train is delayed , ’ he said . |
| 19 | However , in nine cases out of ten the parties do not appreciate this fact . |
| 20 | The Golden Girls on for half an hour . |
| 21 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 22 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 23 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 24 | This lack of Bolshevik militancy ( and the reluctance to comply with Moscow 's directives ) was particularly galling for the Comintern since , as one of its own documents acknowledged , ‘ the Chilean Communist party is the one with the most influence amongst the masses out of all the South American Communist parties ’ . |
| 25 | A simple , slow , bumping grind complemented by fine snippets of vocal , underpinned with soft strings that create a low-lit ambience as the rhythm rocks out with all the time in the world to spare . |