Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the reasons I like this club , sir , ’ I said , ‘ is all these extraordinary old Anglo-Saxon names that one rarely comes across any more . |
2 | As Wimpol becomes increasingly international in technology and operations I intend that interchange of personnel of all disciplines will increase between the regional bases of USA , UK and Singapore . |
3 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
4 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
5 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
6 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
7 | But my studies go on , Music GCSE is just one of the nine exams I take next May ( 1994 ) , then I would like to do ‘ A ’ -level music , and hopefully , Music at University . |
8 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
9 | Looking at the other titles I infer that mine is the only lecture on literature , and logically , perhaps , my title should be ‘ Literature as communication ’ . |
10 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
11 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
12 | From these authorities I collect two things . |
13 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
14 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
15 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
16 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
17 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
18 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
19 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
20 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
21 | ‘ Joe knows that when I do n't train with the lads I do extra training on my own . |
22 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
23 | In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions . |
24 | During that twelve months you get extra supervision and at the during that period the chief constable is entitled to dispose of your service at a week 's notice , but after you get over the probationary period only the Watch Committee could dispose of your services , the onus was on the Watch Committee . |
25 | In some respects she resisted that influence and in others succumbed to it . |
26 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
27 | He 's gon na wait till the copper price zooms up again , then he 'll be back , he never did , order those aluminum rods you know last year . |
28 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
29 | This means that the time between the two wave crests reaching us 15 smaller , and therefore the number of waves we receive each second ( i.e. , the frequency ) is higher than when the star was stationary . |
30 | We go on walks we play some games , |