Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ An apprentice chef with us could be running a small unit after four years , budgets and all .
2 So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other .
3 Mrs Clinton also assured the Hopkins audience that the hospitals of major research institutions like theirs would be insulated against the dog-eat-dog , cost-cutting incentives inherent in managed competition , the administration 's basic formula for reform .
4 ‘ This is much more important than any wedding photograph of mine could ever be , ’ Catherine assured him .
5 For less than £10 a year , the firm running the scheme will contact all the relevant card companies for you should your cards be lost or stolen .
6 Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty .
7 says if if there were a tape record on you would say , Now what are we having for tea ?
8 The only real problem with all these lies in marking out the study area for it will rarely be possible to delimit a discrete enclave of the animals .
9 That is all that is required for plain partial knitting , side levers at I will permit knitting needles at B working position and side levers at O bring holding position .
10 ‘ I would n't like to think a kind bloke like you can be 'ard-'earted , makin' me stay here all alone and with a daft book like this .
11 In general terms , if you machine currently has either an MFM or RLL drive , investing in a cacheing controller card for it will be an unwise investment — assuming you can find one , that is .
12 If I 've got my drinking head on it 'll be the first three pints in about fifteen minutes if that .
13 Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy .
14 In sentences 3 and 4 , the reference value of he may be either the president or some other male person .
15 An increased awareness of potential stressors brought about by better education and an understanding of individual and group responses to it can help to prevent stress from becoming unmanageable and overwhelming .
16 Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department .
17 ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) "
18 mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back .
19 It remains to consider whether the routine collection of data to permit component forecasts of HE could be justified .
20 To provide a university education for her might mark her out as a favoured pupil .
21 ‘ His phone calls to you may not even have been made from Geneva . ’
22 I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two .
23 A planner friend of mine used to predict , from California 's experience , that this was the transport hazard of the future .
24 The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really .
25 Yesterday , the court heard that Mrs Gilfoyle had told her husband that a woman friend of his would only move into their home ‘ over my dead body . ’
26 The real task does not have reversible operators , but any planning simulation of it will .
27 She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger .
28 A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else .
29 This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work .
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