Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er you see the the wireless that we 'd got was the old cats whisker on a crystal , you see , and a pair of earphones that we used to And if anybody rustled a paper , you see ? |
| 32 | I saw a pair of shoes , if my grey shoes do n't go with this dress , I 've seen a pair of shoes that I like . |
| 33 | Er a pair of shoes if you bought it had to last you a long long time . |
| 34 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 35 | Add to that determination , patience , skill , desire , stamina and a good pair of shoes and you may be getting close to finding out . |
| 36 | Hence a conjugate of ( F 2 2 ) z , such as P(FR1)JP-I is also a pair of exchanges and it acts only on the pieces that are brought to the four working locations by P . |
| 37 | And er never shoes they were always boots , did n't have sort of half shoes it was always a pair of boots that you had . |
| 38 | Tracy wants a pair of boots and we 're waiting for the sales . |
| 39 | Carlo brought her flowers each day when he picked her up from her hotel , often adding other gifts : a silk scarf , chocolate truffles , a pair of sunglasses after she had mislaid her own . |
| 40 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 41 | He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles . |
| 42 | I mean I bought one or two pair of clogs when I was on the dredger and we 'd take the iro iron piece off underneath , that 's just like a , a shoe what a horse have , like go round the |
| 43 | Somewhere underneath the pebble lenses , tinged both grey and pink , the steel traps and the wires were , presumably , a pair of eyes but they were only , really , a flicker , in the depths of the optician 's pièce de résistance that towered above Ruthie 's nose . |
| 44 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 45 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 46 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 47 | We are waiting at both ends like a pair of bookends and I get impatient and ask , ‘ Who is this ? ’ |
| 48 | We can lend you a pair of goggles if you do n't wan na buy them . |
| 49 | It breathes through a pair of tubes that it projects from her genital opening . |
| 50 | She had spent too long getting dressed , changing again and again , because her thighs looked bigger in every pair of trousers that she put on . |
| 51 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 53 | Rose looked helplessly down to where the old lady still flailed against her pillows , catching her breath on each series of cackles as they left her throat . |
| 54 | And out of that strangely distorted mouth comes a series of sounds that you will soon start to recognise . |
| 55 | I have not had a reply to a series of letters that I have sent , nor has the prospective Labour candidate in my constituency . |
| 56 | For those who have yet to take the plunge I hope the following will act as a series of checkpoints that you can apply to your own , unique situation . |
| 57 | Well the as you 'll have noticed the course is designed around a series of talks but they are by no means lectures . |
| 58 | In the opening stanza of Robert Frost 's 'stopping by woods ' a traveller begins a series of reflections as he stops to enjoy the sight of the snow falling upon the nearby woods . |
| 59 | The Corrado 's chassis is first class , but watch it attacking a series of bends and it 's hard to understand why . |
| 60 | Horbury , who denies murder , told the jury about a series of rows after he returned home to Mamhilad , Pontypool , from London . |