Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So on Saturday I 'll ask her if she can get them Wednesday for me definitely cos then you can I can get the money off Dad Tuesday you can give it her Wednesday morning , and then I can pick them up Wednesday afternoon when I go over . |
| 2 | The young photographers have bought an old caravan with part of a £500 English Heritage Award for Youth Arts they won last March . |
| 3 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 4 | I do not say that in any criticism of the existing police authorities , my experience as Home Secretary I have to admit now some ten years ago was that on the whole they did a very good job , but I do now accept that the importance of law and order today demands a broad approach and possibly some new ideas . |
| 5 | If the lightning had struck a foot nearer Buxton Road it would have gone right though the roof and considerable damage would have been done . |
| 6 | Nick said talk about Sterling Moss he said sodding fucking when you 're sitting next to . |
| 7 | Now then , I 've made , oh er before I go into the capital gains , er capital allowances you can claim a proportion of the capital allowances on a reducing balance , so er if a car for example costs you five thousand pounds , you 'd actually be allowed twenty five percent in the first year , the twenty five percent would be reduced from five thousand , and in the next year you 'd get twenty five percent off your balance until the five thousand pounds had been allowed against your profits . |
| 8 | Through the Northern Ireland Association of Community Workshops we sought the advice of senior counsel . |
| 9 | However , from evidence submitted by McLoskey Coal Information Services and the British Association of Colliery Management it is clear that orimulsion , the fuel from Colombia , has a higher sulphur content than British coal . |
| 10 | If he had read the Duke of Edinburgh 's report or the reports of the Conservative-controlled London Boroughs Association and Association of District Councils he would know that some of his arguments were invalid — I put it no stronger than that . |
| 11 | Thinking of Gibbet Hall he began to feel sad and lonely . |
| 12 | Three years earlier Richard had performed homage to King Louis at Montmirail but now that he had worn the ring of St Valerie he could claim that he held his duchy in indissoluble union with the people of Aquitaine and the saints who watched over them . |
| 13 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 14 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 15 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 16 | ‘ On the 7th and 10th of Feb. we recd your Letters of the 25th of Septr and 6th of Oct : They were a source of the highest gratification to us all , but neither Letter was so full or explanatory as we could wish and from the slight mention of Mrs. Gould we are fearful that her health is not much improved . |
| 17 | As a programme of state medicine it was quite as significant as that which had shaped the environmental reforms seventy years before . |
| 18 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 19 | In the study of football fans we have access to the manifestations of action on and around the ground and even a permanent record of some of this action in the form of video and audio recordings . |
| 20 | With such a concentration of union representation it is not unreasonable to conclude that ‘ Labour unions are so structured and their membership distributed in such a way as to defend the privileges of the elite ’ ( McGown 1980 p.111 ) . |
| 21 | Thompson has also left his mark in the influential Leverhulme seminar , a think-tank on the future of art education he chaired in 1982 . |
| 22 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 23 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 24 | I was interested to read that none other than Simon Halliday ( Harlequins ) regretted that with the onset of league rugby he would no longer be able to compare his skills with those of his counterparts in Llanelli or Cardiff — he would , however , still have that opportunity with the cream of Scotland and Ireland . |
| 25 | His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box . |
| 26 | It 's all sanded down again , then you put your first coat Now you use what you call a rubber which is consists of a piece of cotton wool You know you know , cotton wool |
| 27 | He told me that before I had come to live with him he never listened to the radio for fear of hearing a song she had liked to sing or a piece of piano music she used to play . |
| 28 | Rollercoaster USA takes in 23 cities from DeKalb to San Diego , mostly hallrooms and ballrooms , until the end of November , and it is , quite simply , the finest piece of rock theatre I have witnessed in 1992 . |
| 29 | If you 're not a lover of platform games it could be a wee bit tedious . |
| 30 | ‘ A nip of port wine I think . |