Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiment with other ideas of your own invention , and play them using various different scale types in as many keys and in as many different musical situations as possible . |
| 2 | Aimed at network operators and telecommunications providers , the resulting products are intended to enable them introduce new value-added services and products . |
| 3 | She wore white ankle socks ; my mother preferred me to wear fawn knee-length ones , but our skirts and berets were the same except mine had a leather band inside you could n't see . |
| 4 | This is , obviously , a fairly limited model in its own right : further , the published reports seem to me to include sufficient logical uncertainties , and the model to require so much manipulation to deal with each individual case , to raise considerable doubts about its real value . |
| 5 | And and that eventually led on to them contacting other interested groups in the area erm like some lawyers from a legal action group , and er other other groups who meet together for whatever purpose in the area , and and setting up Free Legal and Welfare Rights , which was a a formal advice session run on a Thursday night . |
| 6 | The old-fashioned clothes horse offered to children with a blanket and some clothes pegs lets them explore triangular three-dimensional shapes . |
| 7 | Most of them found additional useful material , but found it difficult to understand " their location in relation to the original search " ( Figure 5.7 ) . |
| 8 | As nationalised suppliers , the electricity boards in the past were able to limit their liability for negligence to a trivial sum , but now , Tribick for one wants ‘ them to accept normal commercial negligence clauses in the contracts ’ . |
| 9 | All three diabetic patients had a satisfactory outcome despite the fact that one of them has severe autonomic neuropathy . |
| 10 | But some hospitals and some wards of other hospitals have failed to cope with the demands of too many chronic patients , and lack adequate staff , money and enthusiasm to prevent them becoming mere dumping grounds , especially of the psycho-geriatric cases . |
| 11 | Once over-50s lost their jobs it was virtually impossible for them to find other permanent work , and victims of age discrimination faced reduced pension rights and enforced inactivity for the rest of their lives , the report said . |
| 12 | Since I became pregnant five months ago , he has neglected me . |
| 13 | I became Senior English Mistress at Shrewsbury High School ( G. P. D. S. T. ) in 1959 and Headmistress of Basingstoke High School in 1965 . |
| 14 | Although I asked various qualified people if soil altered the flavour of wine from the same grape variety and district I got no clear answer … |
| 15 | After I run away again , I 'ad real hard times and was nearly starvin' the night you walked into me and did me ankle in . |
| 16 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 17 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 18 | I mean real cloak-and-dagger investigation stuff . ’ |
| 19 | I mean flipping two sips of cider and I 'm anybodys ! |
| 20 | I mean poor old Ron ! |
| 21 | I mean short black hair , yeah ? |
| 22 | I mean grave grave diggers went on strike , hospitals went on strike , could n't bury your dead . |
| 23 | I mean faulty faulty workmanship , you 're talking really about garages and service work . |
| 24 | I mean plain white ones whatever |
| 25 | No , thing I mean silly little thing , well I think it 's silly but there you are , they all see to know what they 're talking about but I mean cer certain things like in the fillet room |
| 26 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 27 | Yes — I eat low fat alternatives whenever I can |
| 28 | I hazarded various Stuartesque destinations like Florida , Bali , Crete and Western Turkey , each of which was greeted by a smug nod of negativity . |
| 29 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
| 30 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |