Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If it helps , I 'm reputed to look like the big-nosed frog we love to hate , and I 'll probably be wearing my yobby green bomber jacket , or my blue one with WEST VIRGINIA on the back in letters that are visible from Leeds .
2 Just then Mother Bombie came trundling up , so they legged it into the scutching room .
3 I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat .
4 The only artist I know that brings to mind that I think is absolutely brilliant is David Sheppard , You got a print on his works and its only one of a hundred prints , and even his prints are worth about a thousand pounds .
5 Yorkshire , too , despite having many talented players and one great one in Hutton , were unable to reclaim their pre-war supremacy and Yardley 's best was to share the championship with Middlesex in 1949 .
6 The Mail began bingo as an answer to the bingo weapons of the Daily Star and the Sun in their circulation war and they dignified it with the name ‘ Casino ’ , but a heap of dung by any other name still smells the same .
7 We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden .
8 Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen .
9 ‘ It 's not just a burner , ’ Doc Threadneedle had told her as he unwrapped it from its tissue like a sugared almond .
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