Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 2 | It was intended to cover two-thirds of the East German budget deficit up to the end of 1994 . |
| 3 | Anyhow we was supposed to , they set a field kitchen up in the farmyard to , as part of the exercise , to feed us er and er they handed out some meat pies , you know , we just had one ta oh taste and well |
| 4 | A ten week preparation course on to the Open University programme leading to the diploma in Health and Social Welfare starts . |
| 5 | It is those that will not that need a lot of preliminary experience building up to the Big Event . |
| 6 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 7 | With the TriAxis , you can leave it rigged okay , but if the battery dies in your transmitter you ca n't whip a jack straight into an overriding front panel socket , because there is n't one ; you 'd have to unplug the receiver from the rear input and plug your guitar cable in round the back . |
| 8 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 9 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 10 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |
| 11 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 12 | Verily , these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives … somewhere . |
| 13 | I have been lucky enough to stroke porpoises from a rowing boat in Loch Torridon , swim in a deep burn with a baby otter in Ardnamurchan and help clear somebody 's cottage loft out of a deep pile of pine marten droppings . |
| 14 | When he did show signs of depression I could usually shake him out of it , and we took a schoolboyish delight in finding ways to disconcert Ralph 's snooty man , Talbot , who brought morning coffee and afternoon tea up to the library , and evidently disapproved or both us and our enterprise . |
| 15 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 16 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 17 | That would throw up some even more interesting questions — and might eventually drive research money back into the universities where , at least for the most part it belongs . |
| 18 | As you near the gap branch off to the top of Green Gable ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 19 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 20 | I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there , |
| 21 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 22 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 23 | She made a twenty pound donation back to the village hall the clerk was to send a letter of thanks . |
| 24 | Odd-Knut lifts his snow hook out of the snow and with a swish is gone . |
| 25 | Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck . |
| 26 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 27 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 28 | She eased her sticking back from the car seat up to a cafe where a boy with slanting eyes and a towel tied round his waist wiped a table clean for them , then shook a filthy cloth over it with a flourish . |
| 29 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
| 30 | joined our maintenance department on as an electrician . |