Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then .
2 In the current , probably mistaken assumption that reunification is only a matter of weeks or months away it is often forgotten that a united Germany as such existed for only around 75 years , between 1870 and 1945 , from Bismarck 's ascendancy to Hitler 's descent into suicide and defeat .
3 However , a few months later it was officially announced the Orange route had been chosen as part of a £100m plus scheme to dual the A5 across Anglesey .
4 Jones had been banished in March of that year for kicking Everton 's Peter Reid in the face as he lay on the ground and 11 months later he was again dismissed at Goodison Park , this time after a head-to-head with Kevin Ratcliffe .
5 Thus , we are the only definable group in the Winter Gardens today who are actually looking forward to Nigel 's speech .
6 However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days .
7 Four days later he was also dropped from the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) .
8 No name was mentioned at the time , and ten days later I was formally charged with manslaughter .
9 Six days later it was officially listed as missing and frantic bosses sent out a fax to signalmen :
10 Some three weeks later they are still responding to queries and will continue to send out packs .
11 EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ?
12 Twenty years later it is still operating successfully .
13 Thirty years later it was universally believed in Abyssinia that the Solomonic line had been re-established , a belief which endured until the overthrow of Haile Selassie and the establishment of the present Marxist republic .
14 Two years later he was again dismissing a third of his hands in a mid-winter lay-off .
15 In December 1675 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the customs : two years later he was also made a commissioner to enquire into abuses in the mint .
16 Three years later he was still exercising the same power .
17 But two years ago he was finally discharged , to be treated as an out patient .
18 Best of all , of course , the place has a built-in prison to put Buoncamino to shame , for though Alcatraz closed its doors to its regular customers 27 years ago it is still preserved as a tourist attraction .
19 Having qualified three years ago I am now asking myself , was it really worth it ?
20 hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ?
21 I had never seen anything so fearsome and kept well back until he despatched the beast ; which seemed to take hours , and several hours later we were still trying to untangle Ian 's line .
22 Three hours later we were still trailing her !
23 And three hours later we were still waiting .
24 Three hours later they were still asking me questions and I could n't keep my eyes open .
25 When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting .
26 Four months and three circulars later they are still lost .
27 And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life .
28 Under the regulations here they 're only allowed to pay up to 80 per cent of your salary from a contributory scheme .
29 Despite the fact that some anxiety is necessary and normal to perform any task , in coping with anxiety and stress problems clinically we are usually dealing with levels which are too high .
30 Oh no if the if the if the if the if the owners well they were privately owned then the mines were and if they did n't want to er get the coal out you did n't work .
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