Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 2 | I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths . |
| 3 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 4 | One explanation for this may be that for many jobs it is high productivity which leads to low job satisfaction . |
| 5 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 6 | The headquarters engineering department found , however , that for new stations it had to take on many more staff , both to develop its limited expertise in generation design , and to fulfil its function of coordinating the work of the fourteen divisions to which generation operations and construction had been decentralised . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 8 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |
| 9 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 10 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
| 11 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 12 | It was argued in chapter 6 that the physicality of artefacts makes them much harder than language to extricate from the particular social context in which they operate , and that for this reason they pose a particular problem for academic study . |
| 13 | They argue , sensibly , that for this reason it would be ridiculous to find alternatives for the syllable ‘ man ’ in these words . |
| 14 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 15 | The first , a matter of convenience and cost , was that for these figures we were able to rely in part on a large survey of lending rates published last year by Consumers ' Association ( Which ? |
| 16 | If you allow this for each garment you will not be disappointed by lack of progress , which seems to cause some knitters to stop using the garter carriage altogether . |
| 17 | But mind , I will say this about this chappie he does stick to it . |
| 18 | I 've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I have n't even done it |
| 19 | no , no , half of this stuff we can actually keep bi , or or leave , leave for them because it 's actually relevant information . |
| 20 | So we , we were back in here by half past eleven Thursday I did n't want to stay out in the cold . |
| 21 | Well erm , at half past six Paula he 'll be in the middle of his tea , you 've got to give the guy a chance to turn round try to suit you , but think of him , he 's just getting in from work and boom |
| 22 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 23 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 24 | Honestly , you can see why some people are n't keen on art ; some of that stuff they turn out is absolute rubbish ! |
| 25 | And give her some of that stuff you 've brought to stop her row . ’ |
| 26 | I du n no , you need to drink some of that vodka you was all gon na like stuf stock up soon that 's the only thing . |
| 27 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
| 28 | She was brought back to her mother 's voice , as though enticing her , yet with a slight sneer in it now , saying , ‘ It would give you an opportunity to wear some of those clothes you 've been spending your money on lately . ’ |
| 29 | Here , Debbie 's put together a sample of points raised in some of those letters we 've received . |
| 30 | Some of those cakes I got those buns . |