Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 2 | What about that young shepherd we saw there the other day , what was his name ? ’ |
| 3 | What about that young foreman who got his wrist broken ? ’ |
| 4 | Relatively little is known about such people , although in oral evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee the head of medical statistics at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys remarked that ‘ one of the things that people are now suggesting about that other group who do not have an occupation is that they are forming … an under class . ’ |
| 5 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 6 | Such belligerent consolation made me think more , not less , about that strange woman he had coupled with on the Nile . |
| 7 | And she still had n't solved the problem yet about what she was going to do about that accursed interview which Cara had entrusted her to carry out ! |
| 8 | She felt twitchy about that vile Angel who hovered shadowy in the background , waiting to perform some dreadful mischief . |
| 9 | Yes , aha , my granny too , spoke about that this lad he 'd to look after them . |
| 10 | ‘ And what about that incredible garment you were wearing when I first met you ? ’ |
| 11 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 12 | ‘ So if you was me , what would you think about that happy-birthday message I got ? ’ |
| 13 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 14 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 15 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 16 | For early investors , we will make bonus allocations to your Bond equal to 0.2% of your investment for each complete week we hold your money until the commencement date of the Bond . |
| 17 | Whether he could recover this sum would depend upon whether he could introduce further people into the scheme , for he would receive a payment for each new participant whom he introduced . |
| 18 | For each individual contract he fitted the regression equation where V t is the estimated variance for day t and M t is a time dummy representing maturity . |
| 19 | ‘ What we wanted to do was identify for each separate office its cash inflow and outflow as a preparatory discipline , if you like , before the demerger . |
| 20 | For each live animal you see in the pet shop many others may have died as a result of capture |
| 21 | The Life Companies shall pay a levy of £10,000 per annum for each appointed representative they employ . |
| 22 | The report states that ‘ the directors are required by UK company law to prepare financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group as at the end of the financial period . |
| 23 | McDonell provided a useful analysis of what is involved in addition , deletion or modification of records , so far as the maintenance and use of associative key lists is concerned ; he defined an associative key list as ‘ a list for each indexed key which joins together all the main file records containing that key ’ . |
| 24 | Under this offer shareholders could choose to receive an amount in new ordinary shares equivalent to 10.65 pence for each ordinary share they held , instead of the recommended final cash dividend of 7.1 pence per ordinary share . |
| 25 | For each cognitive skill which humans possess , they must also possess its opposite . |
| 26 | We will pay £100 for each true story we use . |
| 27 | There is a Field Chair for each approved field whose terms of reference are set out below . |
| 28 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 29 | You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases … |
| 30 | Genette distinguishes parody from other forms of ‘ hypertextuality ’ as that ludic mode which effects punctual and systematic transformations of specific texts while retaining the noble style of the original ( 1982:33–5 ) . |