Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 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 .
6 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 .
7 When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something .
8 So in the future we also have a lot to give to the rest of the world rather than just to look for help .
9 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 .
10 To illustrate good practice we also included a passage from Jerome Bruner 's The Relevance of Education ( 1974 ) .
11 At the beginning of the winter I always feel a bit reluctant about working outside until I get my long johns on .
12 ‘ Yeah , to a large degree I still scoop a lot out for the rhythm sound , but for lead I add a bit of mid .
13 ‘ As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross , ’ recalls Mabel McMillan .
14 you only need a a handful of colleagues with strong views er opposing an issue you immediately create a cliffhanger .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 And he said that he thinks every DSA she always has a day off on her birthday , this man did .
18 To our delight we also got a grandstand view of the original owners of the bay — the otters .
19 Coming in from the South we now have a welcome from the RAF .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 But in that case you just take a piece of new paper and put the down and put it on the clip .
23 At this level you definitely require a frame .
24 With the old method it would take you hours looking through files , but with the computer you just push a button and it tells you right away .
25 ‘ Oh that 's all right , ’ she answered blithely , adding quite without thinking , ‘ In my job I often collect a scratch or two from some over-exuberant canine . ’
26 Through my involvement with scuba diving I recently encountered a diving and wet work glove called ‘ Xerotech ’ .
27 If he does n't do this within the deadline period you then have a year and a day in which to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued .
28 After a moment he unobtrusively laid a hand on her knee and said :
29 The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary .
30 When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke .
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