Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What I have in mind did n't seem to affect you that way last night , ’ he remarked .
2 Erm and what were you going to buy them that pound fifty ?
3 At Beechgrove we have a well-established standard fuchsia , ‘ Dollar Princess ’ , with cerise sepals and a deep purple corolla , but Bill has done well in training a few new standards this summer and intends to give them early protection this year .
4 DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest .
5 Have you got enough change to give her one pound fifty Jack ?
6 Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine .
7 Erm , then anything else I 've said today , this is really not holy writ , erm , I 'm just going to make or suggested arrangement of these dividers and if you want to keep them this way that 's fine , and if you want to do something else with them that 's also fine .
8 So if he wants a hundred thousand , for every ten thousand it 's one pound fifty seven , it 's going to cost him fifteen pounds seventy , and add two pounds , it 's seventeen seventy .
9 When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well .
10 What I want to do wha with the bulldozer I got I would like to poke it that shovel one .
11 Having worked so hard to start a business , it would be heartbreaking to see it all collapse due to some unexpected misfortune such as an accident , fire or theft .
12 Well would you like me to get you some breakfast first ?
13 Have to get her some chocolates same as Zoe .
14 But he is going to take me some day this week to some lovely woods he knows .
15 That 's the end of the shipping forecast but just to remind you that Radio Four long wave in Northern Scotland , Orkney and Shetland is off the air as the bulkhead transmitter has been affected by the bad weather but as soon as it 's repaired we will repeat the shipping forecast for the areas affected that 'll be on long wave only and F M will continue with scheduled programmes .
16 Also to make them more user friendly especially for mums with toddlers in tow , they need to be more roomy .
17 BRITISH featherweight champion Sean Murphy is out to make it third time lucky when he challenges for the WBO world title next month .
18 NAFUTH , runner-up on both his starts to date , looks set to make it third time lucky in the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) at Doncaster tomorrow .
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