Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no idea who got that extra money or where it came from . |
| 2 | A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant . |
| 3 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 4 | I 'd like an extended playground , because at lunchtime the boys take up the playground and play football and if we go on the playground just to run around , they say ’ Oi get off , we 're playing football . ’ |
| 5 | Erm I think we 're er er we 're quite clear at the moment that the correct erm interpretation of it from our point of view is as a fixed asset investment and unless something changes in the er constitution of the company , erm although it may be erm the guiding thing become profitable I think one 's got to play by the rules and the rules at the moment say it is n't one . |
| 6 | Well , this Christine is from Haslington Machine Knitting Club and when she read about the plight of the Romanians she resolved to do something about it — but what ? |
| 7 | It is placed in your child 's seat and if he moves off it , the pressure-sensitive cushion sounds the alarm . |
| 8 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 9 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 10 | Carrie got up to bring the union man some more tea and when she returned with two filled mugs she sat down heavily . |
| 11 | It says young people are the future and unless we invest in them , that future looks bleak . |
| 12 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 13 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 14 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 15 | Since she was seventeen she had had her own car and when she came to London , a fleet of private hire cars at her disposal , not to mention the taxis that swept round the Mayfair comers . |
| 16 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 17 | I almost floated to the car and as I settled in my seat Beamish put his face to the open window . |
| 18 | They are that kind of car and if you look at £80,000 and how long it 'll last you and see how many £15,000 cars you 'll buy in that time , we 're probably bargains . |
| 19 | The particles travel close to the speed of light and as they pass through the bending magnets they emit radiation , covering wavelengths typically from 0.1 to 106 nanometres , and collimated into the plane defined by the circular machine . |
| 20 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 21 | We believe that these findings suggest that osmolality is the key determinant of water absorption in both normal and secreting intestine and that it seems to be of particular importance in the secretory state . |
| 22 | This suggests that the atmospheric CO 2 on Venus is in equilibrium with these types of surface rock and that there exist on Venus accessible surface repositories of CO 2 mainly in the form of carbonates . |
| 23 | Daph had decided on cream for the walls of the bedroom but when we went to the paint store she discovered that the word cream covered a multitude of shades . |
| 24 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 25 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 26 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 27 | Ministers of course always determine for themselves whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they come to the despatch box and make a statement . |
| 28 | J. Waller , Pears Terrace , Shildon : I was going to visit my granny and as I got to the bottom of the street there was a church or a chapel nearby which was flying a flag at half mast . |
| 29 | I was just in the office typing and er and general office work and while he went on the district you see . |
| 30 | ‘ One night after a gig in Whelans , I went down to The Nightrain and as I came in the door I heard this note-perfect rock music , ’ he says . |