Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 2 | Oh shut up woman , shut up , you give me the bloody screaming abdabs , it 's my money I threw away . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst . |
| 4 | If I decide to keep them you will charge me the special offer prices only , plus a total of £1.50 towards postage and packing . |
| 5 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 6 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 8 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 9 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 10 | Doohan and Gardner had their Hondas working well at Eastern Creek even though the NSR 's awesome power gives them the most wheelspin worries . |
| 11 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 12 | Well I think the thing to do is to actually give you the higher dose patches . |
| 13 | Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car ! |
| 14 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 15 | If you fancy your chances , contact Carolyn Andrews at the public affairs department who will send you the necessary registration forms . |
| 16 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 17 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 18 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 19 | After showing the boy how it was done , he 'd offer him the two iron rods — the hot ends towards him . |
| 20 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 21 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 22 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 23 | For her the main election issues include taxation , the NHS and the poll tax which she believes will cost the Conservatives votes because of its unfairness . |
| 24 | The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone . |
| 25 | She 'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending , heartless , authoritarian attitude . |
| 26 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 28 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 29 | He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good . |
| 30 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |