Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 2 | I do n't think Lawrence got any convictions for armed robbery has he , or that there are any subsequently ? |
| 3 | JIM ; No silly I 'm talking about that Council Tax you know that people living on their own are entitled to 25% off the bills . |
| 4 | I 'll admit that hearing about that sermon gave me a cowardly frisson of fear . |
| 5 | ‘ But something about that evidence bothers you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , ‘ what about that steak-and-kidney pud you had on the way here ? ’ |
| 7 | Right because we 've picked that three sixty a penny for each degree makes it easy then no problem none of this messing about with fractions and all the cancelling and ooh dear , which is where all the hard part is that 's where all the hard work is this doing the fractions . |
| 8 | Regarding work with the children and the new families , my plea for a more sophisticated approach in assessing the needs of children and finding the appropriate routes to permanent placement for each child leads me to the conclusion that the nature of the social work service to each child and family must vary according to their needs and their wishes . |
| 9 | Can I make a suggestion about , probably not relevant to B T but might be relevant to the other continuous jobs , if like health care it nearly follows the procedure that you 've got at the moment and that is that in that procedure you have somewhere a line that says that your continuous jobs at the beginning of the job , or early on in the job , in the master job file there is put a note of which parts of the procedure apply and which parts do n't , or how filing is done , or whatever bit is different , which allows you the flexibility for each job to have it 's own , to have it 's own small procedure that forms part of the master job file , that says this is how this one is done , if those differences are very small . |
| 10 | In addition , Tetley will give the Pakistanis £2,000 for each three-day match they win , with a county collecting £4,000 should it beat the tourists . |
| 11 | Finally , check that you have a supply of spare lamps for each lighting set you are using . |
| 12 | A written invitation was sent to 10 patients for each doctor asking them to participate in the study . |
| 13 | Never once during that time had they seen the light of day . |
| 14 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 15 | The high prices of industrial consumer goods deterred the peasants from buying , and the low prices offered by the state for agricultural produce deterred them from selling or even sowing . |
| 16 | Anybody can can spend other people 's money and and as for that lady saying we want the young people on the Council good heavens the young ones would spend it quicker than the old ones . |
| 17 | Some years earlier , John Wood tries ‘ however quaint the thought may appear … to feel as the cottager himself ; and for that end to visit him ; to enquire after the conveniences he wanted , and into the inconveniences he laboured under ’ . |
| 18 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 19 | Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale . |
| 20 | do it purely for that reason do you ? |
| 21 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 22 | In Zanzibar , where Idris Abdul-Wakil ( the President of Zanzibar and thus Second Vice-President of Tanzania ) had announced earlier in the month that he would not seek re-election , Salamin Amour was chosen by the CCM as sole candidate to succeed him . |
| 23 | During Hungarian-Soviet trade talks it was revealed that total Hungarian exports to the Soviet Union were expected to reach $1,500 million by the end of 1991 . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing about this situation makes me feel in the least happy , ’ she shot back at him . |
| 25 | Something about this suggestion made him acutely uncomfortable . |
| 26 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 27 | What 's , er er , erm , what off this list do you feel ? |
| 28 | And if Guido was trying to get her back up by suggesting that Arnie might be enjoying some romantic peccadillo , he would have to look for another way to upset her . |
| 29 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 30 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |