Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 2 | look at some the points , I 've heard , I 've been heckled yesterday do n't heckle me this week the section of level funding . |
| 3 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
| 4 | Can you can you give me some idea the sort of flavour of erm how your meetings how they g g go now ? |
| 5 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 6 | Moreover the fluted columns , caryatid gateways and golden domes of the pavilion suggested to my adolescent self a world of ambiguous pleasures involving him , which I had to suppress my tipsy mind from visualising . |
| 7 | On my right foot the pad of my big toe and the tips of all my other toes were four thickness burns . |
| 8 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 9 | Disappointment ! dash not from my trembling hand the bowl which almost touches my lips . |
| 10 | I am certain that the transition could only have been made possible through the dedication ( If those Mr Chips at Halton , who gave their entire working life to the charges of all their students , Men like A.C.K. Kermode , Whittaker , Latimer Needham , Pillars , B.A. Smith and last but not least my dear friend the maths master . |
| 11 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 12 | In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ . |
| 13 | The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues . |
| 14 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 15 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 16 | And my old man a — ’ |
| 17 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 18 | In my old age the very idea of coping with agents , tenants , taxes , VAT , the Ministry of Agriculture , local authorities and demands all along the line , appals . |
| 19 | ‘ By 1988 , having joined the show in 1986 , I was desperately missing gigging , and I was asked to put my old band The Y-Fronts back together for a charity performance . |
| 20 | As my hon. Friend no doubt knows , under the Road Traffic Act 1991 , local authorities will be able to seek power to recruit and deploy their own parking attendants in designated areas , and any fines levied go to local authorities to help defray the costs of that service . |
| 21 | This summer , I concluded that the latter was better than the former and I can give my hon. Friend no assurance that I would not reach the same conclusion again . |
| 22 | Although we shall do our utmost to resist it , I can not give my hon. Friend a guarantee that we will be successful in that endeavour . |
| 23 | May I press my hon. Friend a little further on the question of the special car tax , given the Government 's excellent record in getting rid of idiosyncratic taxes , of which this is one ? |
| 24 | I can not give my hon. Friend a precise answer to that question , but the inspection of a school in Wales is a fairly rare occurrence , taking schools as a whole . |
| 25 | I can not give my hon. Friend a precise timetable . |
| 26 | I have always shared with my hon. Friend a belief in the importance of manufacturing industry , particularly the motor car industry . |
| 27 | Is not my hon. Friend a little surprised that the Opposition seek to raise that point , given that the 1990 Act and other measures demonstrate that every major environmental initiative this century has been implemented by a Conservative Government ? |
| 28 | It has recently published its prospectus for 1992-93 , and I will send my hon. Friend a copy . |
| 29 | Let me give my hon. Friend a quote : ’ If our costs rise more rapidly than others ' costs , particularly German costs , then British producers lose markets at home and abroad . ’ |
| 30 | However , I am delighted that the Government are giving my hon. Friend a money resolution — that is all very proper — but I beg the House not to be too concerned about what the figure is . |