Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the Scottish erm er er the Scottish er insurance company that runs it , for the whole of Britain . |
| 2 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 3 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 4 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 5 | Leith saw Naylor 's mouth firm and thought it must be on account of the anxiety that Travis was causing his mother . |
| 6 | When your stepfather goes to bed , put a light in your sister 's bedroom window and leave it open . |
| 7 | Then they got really crazy and they were trying to get David 's movie camera and to arrest us all . |
| 8 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 9 | He does n't criticize the vice-president marketing 's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself . |
| 10 | Meredith hunted down Aunt Lou 's telephone number and dialled it . |
| 11 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 12 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |
| 13 | One day in the future , the treacherous Deems-figure who arrives to make the test will employ an argument so sophisticated that I shall be convinced by it , and enter the Emperor 's Council Room and kill him . ’ |
| 14 | No way would it be possible to dissect out one of O'Keefe 's place cells and show it ‘ learning in a dish ’ ; the cell 's responses are meaningful only in the context of the entire nervous system and the behaving organism in which it is embedded . |
| 15 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 16 | In addition , they can shorten the child 's attention span and make him more easily frustrated — and this in turn leads to a poorer performance in school . |
| 17 | I could have recorded the mysterious Mr Archer 's phone calls and had them directed to the office while I was there . |
| 18 | Oracle Corp says it is already working on VMS and OSF/1 ports of its relational database management system technology for DEC 's Alpha RISC and says it 'll be showing them off at DECWorld in Boston at the end of this month . |
| 19 | IN FEBRUARY the High Court in London heard how a Sussex-based antiques dealer knocked on the door of an elderly spinster 's Knightsbridge flat and talked her into parting with an art collection worth more than £30,000 . |
| 20 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 21 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 22 | The woman took her dead son 's bone knife and held it in front of Tallis . |
| 23 | " Oopsie-doopsie , me and my big mouth , " Slater said quietly to himself as Sara took Graham 's plastic tumbler and put it on the mantelpiece beside her own glass , then led him , stunned , unprotesting , through the crowd towards the room where the music was . |
| 24 | She eased herself out from under the duvet , reaching for her heavy wool man 's dressing gown and tying it firmly around her , crossed to the window . |
| 25 | The moment Raft was free , he rushed into Lorre 's dressing room and decked him . |
| 26 | Princess Marie Louise borrowed the King 's dispatch boxes and sent them off to be copied . |
| 27 | ‘ Why not bring her to next week 's fashion show and introduce her to me ? ’ he suggested . |
| 28 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 29 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 30 | I want to ring Steen 's Bayswater place and check he 's not there . |