Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody likes answering machines , but if we are out at the bank , or out of normal hours when you telephone , please leave a clear note of your name and telephone number with your message . |
| 2 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 3 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 4 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 5 | It gusted into every overhang of concrete , whistled down the brick funnels on the tall building where she lived . |
| 6 | For these , they owed service in the host with one knight ; they paid 300 s.bordelaises in relief at change of lord and they owed the king-duke a meal with ten attendant knights whenever he came to Gascony , at the castle of Redort . |
| 7 | Just got ta tie a bit of wood on the end of that bit where it 's rotted . |
| 8 | Yeah but I missed the flipping bit how he killed it . |
| 9 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 10 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 11 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 12 | On some journeys she was accompanied by relations , but on her ‘ Great Journey ’ in 1698 she travelled on horseback with only one or two servants , staying at inns or at private houses where she had family connections . |
| 13 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 14 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 15 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 16 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |
| 17 | That same year , for example , Britain 's Sue Barker enjoyed perhaps her finest hour when she defeated the pretty Czechoslovakian , Renata Tomonova in three sets . |
| 18 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |
| 19 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
| 20 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 21 | And later that afternoon when he drove her home in his car and he seemed unusually quiet , she sensed that he too was remembering that moment . |
| 22 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
| 23 | That afternoon when I arrived at Miss Havisham 's house , it was n't Estella who opened the gate , but a cousin of the old lady 's . |
| 24 | It 's up he did n't actually examine that part where I think there 's a lump . |
| 25 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 26 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 27 | Look , you said to me that you wanted to buy some yoghurt in that fancy pot , German yoghurt and they 've got that advert where they go with it . |
| 28 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 29 | Because , because I 'm a complete stranger so I do n't have to spend time with you at all , so you know . |
| 30 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |