Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the ducks were at Grif Skerry as we expected and , after counts and recounts , we moved on . |
| 2 | Standing at the bar on this rainy Friday night in Warsaw is a tall , thin , dark-haired and rather pretty woman of about thirty , who catches my glance as Leszek Kurowski and I enter and , with a darting , fitful gesture , invites me to approach . |
| 3 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 4 | They all beamed at Sergeant Joe as he knocked and put his head round the door . |
| 5 | Peter is a member of right , he 's actually a member of Clygarthy URC but he works and has erm as a form of day pastor and . |
| 6 | A policewoman pulled a teenage joyrider from a stolen Vauxhall Astra after it crashed and burst into flames in Leeds early yesterday . |
| 7 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 8 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 9 | And er then Mrs Thatcher if you like and cut back council er subsidies and things happened and the work just ran out . |
| 10 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 11 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 12 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 13 | In all this Basil 's sense of humour , kindliness , and perception both of personalities as well as of every aspect of the visual arts , were a great help and encouragement to me , and I shall always be grateful for those years in , the West Riding when I knew and worked with him . |
| 14 | This is the idea wh asked Peter Mark cos you know and he can can control people you know . |
| 15 | His women fans still remember he had an affair with screen goddess Brigitte Bardot before he met and fell in love with Olympic skier Francine Bound . |