Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 2 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I still have a wife , but there 's no need for you to worry your pretty little head about it . |
| 4 | But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around . |
| 5 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 6 | It 's significant that when I get home at night and want to listen to a record for pleasure I usually choose a disc made over 30 years ago — the message survives the medium to an astonishing extent in the best old records . |
| 7 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES . |
| 9 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 10 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 11 | So in the future we also have a lot to give to the rest of the world rather than just to look for help . |
| 12 | In most cases the ileoanal anastomosis lies at the top of the anal columns and hence the anal transition zone is retained ; however , in patients with polyposis we usually perform a mucosectomy and a sutured anastomosis at the denate line . |
| 13 | To illustrate good practice we also included a passage from Jerome Bruner 's The Relevance of Education ( 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 15 | His perversity is plain and if the whole world demands he now signs a striker or a central defender to save his team from relegation , he will not . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the winter I always feel a bit reluctant about working outside until I get my long johns on . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , to a large degree I still scoop a lot out for the rhythm sound , but for lead I add a bit of mid . |
| 18 | ‘ As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross , ’ recalls Mabel McMillan . |
| 19 | you only need a a handful of colleagues with strong views er opposing an issue you immediately create a cliffhanger . |
| 20 | My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go . |
| 21 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 22 | And he said that he thinks every DSA she always has a day off on her birthday , this man did . |
| 23 | To our delight we also got a grandstand view of the original owners of the bay — the otters . |
| 24 | Coming in from the South we now have a welcome from the RAF . |
| 25 | ‘ When goalkeepers come to England they often have a problem with the physical side of the game and dealing with the vast number of crosses , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 26 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 27 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 28 | But in that case you just take a piece of new paper and put the down and put it on the clip . |
| 29 | a lot of his work is , sort of , rather than getting copies you just do a printout |
| 30 | At this level you definitely require a frame . |