Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance the title we thought R O W was Toytown station , R O W was misleading cos b R O W stands for Renewal Of Way . |
2 | Humans use their bodies to express themselves in for instance the way they walk . |
3 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
4 | I ca n't remember his second name ; begins with a G. He was supposed to leave for Aberdeen the day I left , to start some job on the rigs . |
5 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |
6 | We left Northumberland in 1975 , to move north to Caithness , taking with us many happy memories of our time in the beautiful valley of the South Tyne ; but I also took something more tangible , which reminds me of Northumberland every time I use it : my present trout-rod . |
7 | And of course every wine he would name . |
8 | She 's not really enthusiastic about it and of course no doubt we 're getting problems again , stuff going missing , stuff like that , whatever |
9 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
10 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
11 | Of course the description I can give is general . |
12 | if I do over X number of miles and of course the mileage I did was , was way in excess |
13 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
14 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
15 | Because of course the image you get is bigger all around by what , two pen radii , or one full pen diameter , so a good quarter of an inch . |
16 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
17 | Then there 's a lady over here who comes or used to come on a regular basis a couple of times a month she comes now a couple of times a year . |
18 | A couple of times a month she has a drink with the women at work , which is the only time she goes out . |
19 | But I mean I think Gill sort of worries the fact I think she 's , I mean nobody said she 'd be in there till Christmas . |
20 | There was a lot of congestion the night we were there . |
21 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
22 | She can drink a bottle of gin seriously , a bottle of gin every time she comes to our house . |
23 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |
24 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
25 | Well that 's it , that , that 's a very good starting point because one point that Freud er makes in the book and Andrea er alluded to but is , is very important in fact he calls it , there 's a little sub-section of the book called the Analogy and this is the erm analogy that Freud is gon na use for his study of Moseism the analogy he gives , er can you remember it Andrea ? |
26 | The Kings always specialised in bacon and cheese ‘ not a lot of varieties the way you have now , but what we had was good , the best ’ . |
27 | I mean like do you take a lot of stuff every time you go to the van ? |
28 | For his part , Alexei treated Jehana with the kind of respect a man might give to an aged relative , polite and always attentive , but there was a careful absence of warmth every time he spoke to her . |
29 | He said , like coming to this well for your jug of water every day it 's alright while i , the jug , there 's some in the jug , but when you 've drunk it all the jug 's empty and it does n't do a thing for you ! |
30 | I do n't know — nobody does , and I can not resist a smile of despair every time I see one of those gardening page headlines that advise us to ‘ prune those roses now ’ and such like . |