Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 2 | So providing they 're an existing client , or this is their second application with you tonight . |
| 3 | I missed most of the first war with him actually . |
| 4 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 5 | He later said his first impression of her then had been , ‘ What a very jolly and amusing and attractive sixteen-year-old . |
| 6 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 7 | The third part is perhaps something that erm , we find a little more difficult , I do found that er number two , number three and number four if you were n't careful blends very much into one another and actually then part three as far as I 'm concerned actually putting across the benefits is really the main part I think and that really is putting into everyday English what we know as professionals as in technical terms , cos if you go and talk to somebody whatever it is , they have n't got a clue we have , we talk about it all the time and I think the biggest criticism of the insurance industry as a whole is the fact that you do n't talk to people in English and that 's why it 's got such a foot in the door and I think the third part for me really is the most important part of the sales process , relating our cock-ups in English , the benefits the client . |
| 8 | While I was doing that all the drums I left last week for them just to do they had n't done . |
| 9 | That 's next door to him in he ? |
| 10 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 11 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |