Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As breeding birds Little Grebes appear surprisingly scarce , the records for the years 1970 to 1976 indicate a population of less than 100 pairs . |
| 2 | I 'm going to go to the hairdressers so Jim 's going to look after you . |
| 3 | His disciplinary record was appalling and in modern times only Willie Johnson of Rangers and Billy Bremner of Leeds come remotely close to seizing his crown . |
| 4 | In the host mud , there was only a trace of PLTE at the minimum detectable limit and there was roughly a thousand times less PLDE than PLFA ( Table 1 ) . |
| 5 | Erm , it 's , if is a bit awkward bu , you know , our , well our terms because you know how calls so Jenny gets to have them , she gets an awful lot . |
| 6 | The first president was Major Ernest Vaux , he of the brewing family and the maxim gun : of the 11 founding clubs only Seaham Harbour , Seaham Albion and Boldon ( who , alone , survive ) were n't from Sunderland . |
| 7 | Of the major cities only Birmingham , Liverpool and Sheffield elected more Unionists than Liberals in 1910 , but Unionism was also strong in Plymouth Brighton , Preston , and Bath . |
| 8 | The North Atlantic Marine Mammals Commission , as it is to be known , groups together Norway , Iceland , Greenland and the Faroe Islands . |
| 9 | With the wind and waves astern Nada gathered momentum : no turning back now . |
| 10 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 11 | With the imminent launch of BBC 2 less than six months away Sydney Newman saw little of Doctor Who after the pilot episodes had been approved until , at home on a Saturday afternoon , he watched the first episode featuring the Dalek machines . |
| 12 | Open : Banquets ever Friday and Saturday evening . |
| 13 | By the seventh and eighth centuries BC Israel had become quite wealthy . |
| 14 | It is true that centuries later Ptolemy applied mathematics to his astronomy . |
| 15 | In mediaeval Britain it was eaten in very large quantities , often raw , and a few centuries later William Shakespeare commented unfavourably on its smell . |
| 16 | Two centuries later Flamininus was emulated by the Roman emperor Nero ( AD 54–68 ) , who had a passion for Greek culture and who , in AD 67 , exempted all Greek cities , by then incorporated within the Roman province of Achaia , from taxation and Roman interference in local administration . |
| 17 | A few months later Rob was playing this bassline and richard , prancing about with the microphone , started singing ‘ I 'm too sexy … ’ |
| 18 | In April 1820 Green 's doctor , Richard Scambler , and his prating wife are ‘ replete with folly ’ , and in writing his obituary a few months later Green ‘ can find very little to praise . ’ |
| 19 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 20 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 21 | Four months later Taitu , mischievous to the end , died of a heart attack . |
| 22 | Four months later Anne and Mark announced their separation . |
| 23 | Less than six months later Philip was confined to his own estates . |
| 24 | Four months later Alan Howarth , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the D.E.S. , addressed the twenty-first anniversary celebrations of the Politics Association at the House of Commons . |
| 25 | Jamie was sold , but 2 months later Mrs Burt has n't kept her side of the bargain . |
| 26 | so six months later Terry 's mother died it was a thousand pound gone up ! |
| 27 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 28 | Six months later Jez has started to walk again . |
| 29 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 30 | Two months later France gave Cameroon FF600m ( $110m ) in new loans . |