Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I did around eleven . |
| 2 | When told what the leaves were — for Poison Oak is well known across the Atlantic as a cause of severe contact dermatitis — she decided that she must wash vigorously ; and this she did about 1½ hours after touching the leaves . |
| 3 | For example , in the Raman spectrum of CO 2 we expect only one fundamental , due to the symmetric stretch , of symmetry species . |
| 4 | He described the terrorists as ‘ discredited and unwanted ’ and said it was clear they had only one purpose — the triumph of evil . |
| 5 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 6 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 7 | In 1963 he fell only 31 votes short of being elected Labour leader ; he might have become prime minister . |
| 8 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 9 | turns out to be five foot two , dark hair and really not all that good looking after all , and so the problem with the advertising is that you know how one person sees themselves and advertises themselves not always the way they actually appear so its er pitfall |
| 10 | Given that you have only two lines of text to play with , and therefore a maximum of two fonts to use , gloriously grotty font clashes are unlikely . |
| 11 | I , I liked it at college but I 'm glad I went just one day a week because |
| 12 | Working in groups of three we tackled about ten titrations each in three hours with a break for lunch . |
| 13 | In 1969 he took just seven wickets , before retiring . |
| 14 | Between that year and 1941 he published over thirty other novels , the first to be based on the French Foreign Legion , The Wages of Virtue , appearing in 1916 . |
| 15 | Furthermore , expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP has fallen , In 1975/76 educational expenditure represented 6.3 per cent of GDP but in 1986/87 it represented only 4.9 per cent . |
| 16 | But it was as a cotton spinner , not a merchant , that Mayall excelled and by 1870 he controlled approximately 319,000 spindles , with c .1,350 hands . |
| 17 | In 1984 it produced only 3.1 per cent of GNP . |
| 18 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 19 | But after all you came back one day , and it all started again . |
| 20 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 21 | 15.43 We list below five important criteria , in addition to those specified in paragraph 15.16 which have informed our recommendations and which we would expect those constructing internal and external assessment arrangements to take into full account . |
| 22 | Is that all they need just one dozen sausages ? |
| 23 | In all he published about 350 books and papers . |
| 24 | Between November 1885 and February 1913 he took out nine patents , eight relating to locomotive engines and one for ‘ an improved egg-opener ’ . |
| 25 | This monster had eight heads and eight tails and was so long it stretched over eight hills and eight valleys . |
| 26 | During 1914 he completed only eight portraits , tentatively and experimentally , for he was struggling to find himself , trying out different styles . |
| 27 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 28 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 29 | And each year you moved up whether you were good , bad or indifferent you moved up one class , you see . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the average wage-earner noted that , whereas in 1960 tax and insurance took 8 per cent of his or her earnings , in 1970 they took nearly 20 per cent . |