Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |
| 2 | And er , it was very amusing , but repeatable , half the things he wrote in it , and erm , it 's very , it was very good , but , he is quite good at that when he sets his mind to it , it usually takes him about three days to do it , but he does like to er , write messages in people 's cards . |
| 3 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , variceal haemorrhage was the cause of death in almost half the patients who died during their first hospital admission while infection and hepatorenal failure accounted for most of the rest . |
| 5 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 6 | Erm i then all of sudden the tiles they got in there are they ? |
| 7 | My handicap went up in twos the winters I spent with him . |
| 8 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 9 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 10 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |
| 11 | The traditional areas still maintained fortunately , cos it did n't affect the knitted outer-wear at this stage , so all the areas we talked about in the north of Yorkshire moor and Scotland , fortunately there 's more of a skill to maintain there . |
| 12 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 13 | However , all the commentators who spoke to ACCOUNTANCY said that they had welcomed the principle behind the document warmly . |
| 14 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 15 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 16 | For all the others there had to be a process of acquiring sign after the age of 15 years , with the average being somewhere in the mid-20s . |
| 17 | With Rhianon she made up his first fan-club : but even so — as with all the others I talked to who came from Richard 's past — there was no ‘ soft soap ’ : sadness because he was gone — much of that — but no false sentiment . |
| 18 | When Ariel gently lifted the old woman to move her to her own quarters up the path in the forest , Sycorax gave a huge cry , the folding of her body in Ariel 's arms shot fiery rivers of pain through her that for a while swallowed up all the others she suffered from her burns . |
| 19 | All the women we spoke to agreed that it 's up to the families themselves to fight for their rights and recognition — sadly no one else is going to do it for them . |
| 20 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 21 | Yeah , but I think all the things they said about him were true , I hate the man I do . |
| 22 | Listen to me , Sarella — ca n't we forget all the things we said in the heat of the moment — ’ |
| 23 | We think of all the things we wanted for Danny — a job , a happy marriage , children . |
| 24 | Flora envied them because all the things she craved in life they could buy cheaply in the NAAFI . |
| 25 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 26 | It would be impossible here to go into all the things I learned in therapy . |
| 27 | You work and scrape your way into the big time , you achieve most of the things you want — houses , cars , gorgeous wife , foreign travel , all the things you dreamed of when you were a grubby kid — and then , when you settle back to enjoy them , it all goes wrong . ’ |
| 28 | You must remember all the things you talked about at the hospital , while you were waiting to see the doctor . |
| 29 | It came to pass that when the Lord had ascended from the water , the whole fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him , and said to him , ‘ My Son , in all the prophets I looked for thee , that thou mightest come and I might rest in thee ; for thou art my rest , thou art my Son , my first-born , who art king for evermore . ’ |
| 30 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |