Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 2 | They had nearly half their capital tied up in loans there . |
| 3 | The USGA have made clear their intention to crack down on slow play at Baltusrol and Langer believes he is not one of the worst offenders . |
| 4 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 5 | I just became a vinegary old dragon , and all my bitterness turned in on myself and affected my heart . |
| 6 | Many have all their capital tied up in their homes and have to use the meagre resources of the basic state retirement pension to repair and restore their homes and to pay their heating bills ? |
| 7 | When I first arrived here , shortly after Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street , both the country and the firm spent all their time looking back to past glories . |
| 8 | Unfortunately two anglers now had all their gear spread out amongst the greenery . |
| 9 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 10 | ‘ And all his money goes back to his wife . ’ |
| 11 | Got all his hair tucked up in that thing , you see — otherwise , he 's not so like me , not strikingly so . |
| 12 | Curtis added after a moment , ‘ I 've got all his clobber spread out in the charge room . ’ |
| 13 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 14 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 15 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 16 | Within 10 years many of us will be spending almost all our time zooming around inside the digital ocean and interacting with others . |
| 17 | Took us all me time to get out of bed at nine o'clock . |
| 18 | It was while we were deciding what to do that your policeman turned up with the news . ’ |