Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 2 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 3 | It was the piece she liked best in the whole house . |
| 4 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 5 | He is God 's first instalment of the future salvation that awaits us ; the part of the future we have now in the present ; the pledge of the fuller life that is to come . |
| 6 | The research we carried out in the Rubber Chemicals section identified that improved written systems were the key to preventing Lost Time Accidents and Classified Injuries like chemical burns . |
| 7 | Not words we use much in the Civil Service , yes and no , even in the most impersonal contexts . |
| 8 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 9 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 10 | What hee got with hard labour he spent idely in the Alehouse ’ . |
| 11 | He was hurt because the reputation he prized , perhaps most of all , of being an all-round expert on the farm would now be jeopardized : and when Walter Cater met the horseman he admired most in the district , as he did every Sunday morning , he was asked quite seriously : ‘ What ! |
| 12 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 13 | The entranced girl I stood behind in the gallery at Covent Garden in June , nearly fainting in the heat — such a summer , that year — to hear Chaliapin in Prince Igor … |
| 14 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 15 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 16 | Oh Carolina is a girl she buck up in the |
| 17 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 18 | Is it more successful in reducing lead times ? ( a question we take up in the following section ) |
| 19 | Eva they decked out in the gold trimmings for a General , set on a pink velvet collar with a lace edge . |
| 20 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 21 | And it might be a good idea to keep a vacuum flask filled with a hot drink by your bedside in case you wake up in the night feeling cold . |
| 22 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 23 | She scorned the ‘ literary ’ but still believed in the literature she admires here in the work of Christina Stead , Louise Erdich , and in the best discussion of Jane Eyre you will ever read . |
| 24 | From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car . |
| 25 | Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night . |
| 26 | Sister Act pairs Whoopi with another Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith in a tale of a nun on the run and the change of fortunes she brings about in the convent where she seeks sanctuary . |
| 27 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 28 | Once women can control unexpected births through contraception they spend longer in the labour force and invest more in education and qualifications which in turn increases their earning potential and makes the economic incentives against starting a family more marked . |
| 29 | ALAN SHEARER 'S success at Blackburn Rovers is reflected in the massive signing-on fee he picked up in the record move . |
| 30 | The following afternoon we flew inland in the Valentia , which was used to deliver mail . |