Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 2 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 3 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 4 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 5 | We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 6 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 7 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 8 | Stuart liked this one across the road . |
| 9 | ‘ I borrowed this one off a pal who wants it back by nightfall . |
| 10 | Is this one of the ducks at the place ? |
| 11 | Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register ? |
| 12 | Houses are thrown open as Malaysians entertain their family and friends , firecrackers are let off everywhere and colourful lion dances make this one of the year 's favourite events . |
| 13 | ‘ Is this one of the wines you import , Mr Hepwood ? ’ she asked — and suddenly , as everyone looked a trace amused , any tension she had imagined to be there magically disappeared . |
| 14 | First 10 correct entries opened after that date will each win a copy of Everton Player By Player , whose pictures and text by Ivan Ponting will make this one of the soccer books of the year . |
| 15 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 16 | Have you had any problems with this one over the years ? |
| 17 | Okay I thank I think tell me e tell me what where you 'd put capitals on this one about the cricket . |
| 18 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |
| 19 | How the House will have valued yet another statement from the hon. Member for Dagenham , this one to the effect that he would do something only in extremis . |
| 20 | So I bring this one to an end with a nasty short jab to his belly . |
| 21 | I devised this one for a sewing box with a 50mm deep lid . |
| 22 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 23 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 24 | Mary took the five pound salmon from her bag , wrapped in newspaper , ‘ in which case , ’ she continued , ‘ Yanto said you could have this one for a pound , and it 's worth a least two pounds ten , as you know . |
| 25 | Erm This one for the bikes . |
| 26 | He decided to leave this one for the moment but logged the fact that Jennifer Morgan had still been interested in , and comfortable with , the man who had become her sister 's fiancé . |
| 27 | Mother always liked this one for the dining room because she was afraid that the needles of the real one would get into the food . |
| 28 | I reckon even the insurance company will accept this one as a write-off . |
| 29 | I could see her thinking , ‘ We ca n't send this one on a book tour . ’ |
| 30 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |