Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag . |
| 32 | You know when you go in the car park you have to get a token to get out . |
| 33 | the er main roads are fine , it 's the side roads we 've got ta watch out for , for black ice lethal |
| 34 | Wycliffe led him into his office and entered upon the preamble : ‘ In a murder case we have to follow every possible lead . |
| 35 | Many large companies , including Merrill Lynch , Shearson Lehman , and Bear Stearns , have allowed employees to take at least part of the bonus money they expect to earn before December 31 . |
| 36 | Mummy mum I want to put it over , I want to put it down |
| 37 | Jack and the 70-year-old Helga Maria slipped out of Whitby Harbour on Tuesday after the skipper told harbour authorities he wanted to test the engines . |
| 38 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 39 | On the export side we have gained further new contracts during the year , as well as achieving growth in sales of our existing ranges . |
| 40 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 41 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 42 | At the same time use your supporting troops to tie up the enemy units you want to keep out of the way . |
| 43 | Based on the same principle as the old-fashioned drawing aid they use jointed arms and co-ordinate geometry to provide a direct measure of the position of the stylus . |
| 44 | You may have actually heard people raving about the miracle weight losses they have achieved and attributed to these magical foods . |
| 45 | In order to further develop our services to the Agrochemical Industry we wish to create two appointments at Section Manager level . |
| 46 | Mr Crofts said : ‘ As a football club we 've got to progress . |
| 47 | McChrystal was one of the two young musicians , just leaving music college in 1988 , whom I and two other judges chose earlier this year as the latest Sutton Recording Prizewinners on the basis of tape recordings they had made . |
| 48 | The first few crime books I wrote failed to sell to any American publisher . |
| 49 | She felt even worse when she saw Stephen 's girlfriend in church , flourishing the engagement ring she had persuaded him to give her before he left to organise a factory in Newcastle for his firm . |
| 50 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 51 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 52 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |
| 53 | On the coaching side we need to exploit fully our creativity and diversity of styles and encourage teachers to come forward and take a hand in contributing to the team 's repertoire . |
| 54 | The first dimension of meaning of the handshake as action is the open set of distinct social action sequences it helps to perform . |
| 55 | They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course . |
| 56 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 57 | On the last day , Peter bought Anna a Welsh wool shawl she had craved , striped like the summer sea , and , when they packed to go home , she deliberately left all her cardigans behind , in the rickety chest of drawers of the pub bedroom . |
| 58 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 59 | On the club scene he has played for Cumberland first division side Hensingham for 10 years and featured in the team which won the Cumberland under-19 title this season . |
| 60 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |