Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 3 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 4 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 5 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 6 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 7 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 8 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 9 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 10 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 11 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 12 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 13 | Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the level of violence during the past two or three months . |
| 14 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 15 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 16 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 17 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 18 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 19 | Hunter ended his description with a comment on Maria and a hint as to his charges to Martin Van Butchell : ‘ This body … yet promises exceedingly well , nor do I see any great improvement to be made ; a number of experiments must be made before I embalm any other body , such as finding the exact proportion of moisture Paris Plaister will take up etc. but at present I know of no other Process at all useful and considering the trouble you must have during all these Processes now laid down , you ought not to undertake it under 100 Guineas . ’ |
| 20 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 21 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 22 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 23 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 24 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 25 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 26 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 27 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |
| 28 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 29 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 30 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |