Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun sg] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people shopping by mail order are ‘ agents ’ and get ten per cent commission on their orders ; this obviously offsets any higher price they are paying , so that for them mail order credit is truly free . |
| 2 | Monthly interest from National Savings totalled £1,305 for the year , and my building society interest was £1,307 , after tax of £435 was deducted . |
| 3 | Thereafter , because he patently thought my laughter geometry chart was the first sign of incipient lunacy , I would play the lines , then turn upstage and make a huge gesture demonstrating the sausage shape of the laugh , which never failed to roll him up . |
| 4 | My home telephone number is . |
| 5 | Frank , of Headingley Crescent , said : ‘ The problem with my war disability pension is I have to pay the top whack tax . |
| 6 | On my 486 clone it would n't work without the battery , so I guess my cheapo serial port was n't up to scratch . |
| 7 | In addition my Consumer Education Unit are targeting tomorrow 's consumers with their ‘ Green Detective ’ project which features as one of the initiatives at the Environmental Exploratorium being hosted at Drummond High School during the festival . |
| 8 | My average working day was nine hours with approximately half an hour ( 6 per cent ) for social activity . |
| 9 | And she said last year I 'd pulled that on the furniture , and like the first year you 're old enough to really wrap and there was a tap on the window and Theresa went out and she went , and come back and she went oh my God Father Christmas is out there and she said |
| 10 | Dr R. D. Bagnall replies : My student chemistry days were in fact spent at Birmingham in the 1960s , by which time Howarth had left , but there was still a thriving carbohydrate group . |
| 11 | My training company commander was a Regular Army officer of thirty or so . |
| 12 | I then covered the tank completely ( newspapers were used ) as according to my information Cardinal tetras are ‘ dark spawners ’ , meaning that in their natural biotope spawning takes place during the night in low light intensities . |
| 13 | NHS trust hospitals in my health authority area are sending people to Toronto , Paris and all over the world to learn how to do catering and cleaning . |
| 14 | The other trees on my autumn planting list are the Indian bean tree Catalpa bignonioides and a medlar Mespilus germanica , brought here by the Romans but nowadays found only in old gardens . |
| 15 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 16 | My school uniform colour was a deep green . |
| 17 | My five-year-old daughter Hollie was studying my face with great concentration one day when she suddenly said : ‘ You 've got spots . ’ |
| 18 | My language awareness course is intended to obviate the need for it by enabling any teacher to learn alongside the pupils . |
| 19 | However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended . |
| 20 | Their one-year-old son George is recovering from leukaemia . |
| 21 | A central government directed devolution of large psychiatric hospital services to their catchment area communities was therefore an unlikely outcome . |
| 22 | You may prefer their texture or you may need extended periods of wet paint , in which case Blockx colours are very useful . |
| 23 | You may prefer their texture or you may need extended periods of wet paint , in which case Blockx colours are very useful . |
| 24 | The John Watson School at Wheatley is facing a parking fine because its Variety Club minibus is too big to fit into a parking space . |
| 25 | Even though their Ford Escort van was up against pukka racing cars like the MG Metro 6R4 and Ford 's turbo-charged Sierra Cosworth , the pair were far from disgraced . |
| 26 | Brazil 's undertaking ( despite its decision not to join the ATPC as a full member ) to control wildcat mining at its Bom Futuro mine was expected to reduce production by cutting the mine 's output from 19,000 tonnes in 1990 to 14,000 tonnes in 1991 . |
| 27 | The fact that shares and deposits of the personal sector feature so largely among building society liabilities is partly the result of their origins but also of the way in which building society interest is taxed . |
| 28 | Their calcium carbonate skeletons are composed of the mineral aragonite , chemically the same as calcite , but with the atoms arranged in a different way . |
| 29 | So she needs the baby to do that and at that point once her milk production schedule is under way as it were , at that point when , just before she 's about to start giving them , then she should test the baby because that 's the big energetic cost to her . |
| 30 | Her present working environment was very quiet . |