Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females associate with only a single male during times when they are most likely to conceive . |
| 2 | Alice P. had been supporting a bedridden sister for years when she herself died in 1952 . |
| 3 | I must just tell you this , Laura did make me laugh , cos she said she stood up and she said , I 'm gon na give my talk about cats so I said , fine . |
| 4 | That 's the recommendation made by the Royal College of Physicians in they 1986 report . |
| 5 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |
| 6 | yeah but shear weight of numbers like I mean America , America and Britain |
| 7 | Erm sell for about eighty seven pound including spacers so I was gon na go in at about eighty three , eighty four but it 's the new pricing company so I 've got to ask your permission have n't I ? |
| 8 | Moreover , children gave precedence to the matching rule in situations where it conflicted with another rule . |
| 9 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 10 | The fact that the secondment was in the part of MOPs where I had worked on summer vacations nearly thirty years ago was an added incentive . |
| 11 | This approach would reserve judgement on the rights and wrongs of the social fund but would , as far as possible , adopt a positive approach to what is essentially a discretionary fund , by advocating the payment of grants wherever they were not specifically excluded by the guidelines . |
| 12 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 13 | Each Holy Roman Emperor , the supreme example of an elected monarch , had to accept the same kind of limitations when he was chosen by the imperial electors . |
| 14 | before we start getting up to the kind of figures where we can actually see a you know |
| 15 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 16 | And after the course of years perhaps I should respond , ‘ It was nice when the primroses were out … ’ or ‘ the leaves had turned golden … ’ or ‘ the snow was on the ground … ’ |
| 17 | She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills , had seven or eight husbands ( depending on which reference book you read ) , and was not averse to the odd bout of fisticuffs when she got off her head . |
| 18 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 19 | The High Court in Edinburgh was told that McDonald was under the influence of drugs when he entered the bank and vaulted a counter . |
| 20 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 21 | I ate three small carrots and was half-way through a can of sardines when I noticed a sea shell in the sand almost beneath me . |
| 22 | Think about how history can be promoted as a school subject , instead of jumping straight in with a myriad of reasons why it can not . |
| 23 | On this question of priorities here I understand that if we go along with local presses , to the housing corporation that this is a priority and then they , they can see to that make the money available when can we go along again with another priorities ? |
| 24 | A legal problem has arisen here in respect of defendants who ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman was not consenting : we have seen that such men can be convicted of rape in cases where they achieve penetration , but there is a problem in convicting them of attempted rape where they fail to achieve penetration but clearly intended to do so . |
| 25 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 26 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the discretionary nature of the Social Fund scheme permitted local officers a good deal of flexibility in cases where they could provide assistance . |
| 27 | This was usually negotiating better discounts , in some of our production centres reducing the web width , which of course saves newsprint and in many areas er , in the regional newspapers reducing the distribution of our freeze in areas where we thought it er , it would n't affect , it would n't have affected the performance of the title . |
| 28 | In the context of section 39(2) this might include ‘ accompanying the child in situations where it would be unsafe for the child to go to school unaccompanied ’ , where the child did live ( only just in this more recent case ) within ‘ walking distance ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ That same day , ’ recalled Cossins , ‘ he filmed part of a terrifying scene on rollerskates where he went underneath a lorry . |
| 30 | Increased usage of the VSOE Pullman train for repeat itinerary charter work on days when it is not required for the Folkestone run , has given prospective passengers some further options . |