Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 2 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 3 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 4 | Husband John used to be a professional boxer … and has beaten former heavyweight champ Joe Bugner on more than one occasion . |
| 5 | Although it holds grand cru status Beaumont-sur-Vesle can in no way be described as a great growth . |
| 6 | MANY shareholders in ICI 's spin-off company Zeneca must by now be tempted to walk away from the 600p a share rights issue . |
| 7 | On Dec. 13 , 1989 , a State Security court in Erzincan sentenced to death Adil Can for his part in a raid on a police station in Gumushane 's Siran district . |