Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often .
2 What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure .
3 The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning .
4 IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa .
5 Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap .
6 As from April 1993 , even more flexibility will be allowed with couples able to choose whether all the tax relief should go to one partner ( husband or wife ) or whether to split it on a 50–50 basis .
7 During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s .
8 When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent .
9 Shortly after moving into The Kilns , Minto had engaged a gardener to help her with the eight acres of ground .
10 One minute , Mrs Doyle was found to be going along with arrangements to play it on a nine hole course and , soon after , it was cancelled altogether .
11 But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off .
12 when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or
13 yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on .
14 Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) .
15 My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’
16 And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know .
17 Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) .
18 Sir George stamped his conclusions so firmly on the subject that no one had the temerity to question them until the sixties .
19 The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production .
20 The last two made her suspicious of Russia , and even ready to fight her in the 1870s .
21 The labour group have now agreed to reduce it to a hundred thousand .
22 AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s .
23 We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) .
24 If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition .
25 So I mean , I will continue to harass him through the twelve months if possible , because I think
26 Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry .
27 I was going all out to turn them into the Seventies ’ strongest band . ’
28 The desire to modernise the UKCC and the national boards , and to condition them for the 1990s is uncontentious and is supported by the Opposition , by the professional organisations and by the health unions .
29 It 's being sold with planning permission to turn it into a hundred and twenty bed hotel .
30 The site 's owners , Hanson Plc , promised to preserve the site , to spare it from the two perennial dangers of the era — being covered by an office block or , worse , being renamed the Branagh theatre .
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