Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 you , you , you 're relying on , but you did n't really sort of go back and say , I mean I , I would use a phrase like erm you know , regards to planning your future I 'm sure you found that of benefit to you tonight and get re and actually dig a bit deeper in that and say what was it in the , in , in that actual form that , that
2 Yeah , it 's true , you take bits of The Sweeney , yeah , they done an episode of where there 's bank raid and what they do n't want they use mask , masking tape right like that and end up .
3 ‘ You ca n't give three goals away like that and expect to win the match , ’ he said .
4 I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around .
5 The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ .
6 ‘ There 's obviously a great deal more to this than meets the eye .
7 She had short blonde hair and was wearing a yellow blouse and a cotton wrap-around skirt also in yellow but blotched with large orange flowers .
8 It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion .
9 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
10 The policy was designed to improve communities both in social and housing terms during the five-year life of an HAA , and an overall aim was to remove heavy reliance on individual improvement and to enhance the environmental and physical quality of the areas .
11 He had heard old men in the workhouse say it was a good place for brave boys , and that there was always work there for those that wanted it .
12 A.C.D. de Graaff arrived as Governor-General late in 1926 and appealed to the nationalists for cooperation while some Dutch officials endeavoured to counteract their countrymen 's reactionary spirit by forming De Stuuw ( Forward Movement ) .
13 They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day .
14 Instead of taking attitudes as relatively straightforward guides to behaviour and expressed as opinions , they sought to measure attitudes more as dispositional and rooted deeper in the personality .
15 Philips blamed the unprecedented slump in the consumer electronics market that hit business hard in 1992 and dragged down its related components business for the latest round of woe , adding that ‘ The extent of improvement is dependent upon two major factors , price developments in the markets for consumer electronics and components and the speed of implementation of the restructuring programmes . ’
16 On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne .
17 With this scenario , assume next that the company decides to set its price initially at 56,700 and lets it be known generally that it will hold price at that level until the average cost per unit of cumulative output falls below that figure , whereupon the company will set its price at 20 per cent above the falling average cost per cumulative unit .
18 Bedfordshire lost the services of its professional officer ( actually a non-teaching organiser ) Gwen Rawlings late in 1952 and did not receive a tutor-organiser to replace her , Evan Richards , until August 1956 .
19 In painting public outings in parks , café-concerts , and common prostitutes instead of great and idealized historical figures , Manet , Seurat , and others were painting , no longer the ordered , but the contingent .
20 In Smeaton v. Ilford Corporation Upjohn J. found it unnecessary to express a concluded view on the question whether a local authority exercising statutory duties is altogether outside the rule as suggested by Denning L.J. , or prima facie within the rule subject only to express or implied statutory modification as tentatively suggested by Evershed M.R. in the Pride of Derby case .
21 They were nearly home now and he knew that once inside the house , she would dose the front door symbolically on all that had happened .
22 Mike Lawrence has been the test pilot here since 1983 and has flown 4,000 sorties including every one of the 165 Jaguars in the RAF Fleet .
23 He was District Secretary there since 1991 and has been a branch representative in several branches since 1976 .
24 Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable .
25 First she could not see any mistress there at all and thought the girls were alone and then she caught sight of Mademoiselle 's head in the middle of a crowd of girls , what was happening ?
26 ‘ There seems to be a lot more to this than meets the eye , ’ said Sergeant Camb indignantly .
27 Ray Jones , of McDonnell Douglas , said : ‘ There is a lot more to this than meets the eye and I would like to make extensive comment , but I can not .
28 A joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay it began transmission late in 1984 and has the capacity to produce 12,600 MW with a flow of water through the 18 turbines which is 150 times that of the River Thames .
29 In fact , we probably carried more information then about social and campaigning organizations — a myriad world of Chipping Norton GLFs and Llandrindod Wells CHEs that no longer exists , replaced with a few regional commercial meccas and a London explosion of hotels , plumbers , shops and other services .
30 Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day .
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