Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up in the stand someone giggled with nervous tension . |
| 2 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 3 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 4 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 5 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 6 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 7 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 8 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 9 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 10 | This controversial book was widely discussed but whether it was read by artists I leave to further research . |
| 11 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 12 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
| 13 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 14 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 15 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 16 | The molecules each contain three atoms of sulphur , and are negatively charged : the structure that encases them consists of linked cages of aluminium , silicon and oxygen atoms . |
| 17 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 18 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 19 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 20 | I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail . |
| 21 | A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH … |
| 22 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 23 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 24 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 25 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 26 | I apply a multiplier of nine , it follows that the figure I allow for this period is five hundred and thirty four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence and the total cost of future care is therefore eight hundred and ninety four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence . |
| 27 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 28 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 29 | the rise of capitalism in a country and the religion which predominates in that country . |
| 30 | The socially undesirable characteristics which advocates of this movement felt were inheritable and should be eliminated were , as always , strongly influenced by contemporary social imperatives . |