Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid a crescendo of passion I forced open your legs and you joyously proclaimed , ‘ Thank you , thank you , I could never do the splits before . ’ |
| 2 | The heavily sodden nappy slipped down her legs and she just stepped out of it , much to the amusement of the assembled people . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've played for Utah Jazz against the very best in America — including Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan — in front of 40,000 fans and I only hope I put that experience to good use . |
| 4 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 5 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 6 | Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years . |
| 7 | There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests . |
| 8 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
| 9 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 10 | and they , that was when they were kids and they still remember it |
| 11 | I have duly noted what you have said in your second and third paragraphs and I fully appreciate what you are saying , stop . |
| 12 | The group meets four times a week ; in addition we have individual counselling sessions and we also meet with couples . |
| 13 | She told her brothers and they too put their faces into the soft sealskin . |
| 14 | But I 've called into other tax offices and they too can get on their video screen y th your history from your tax office . |
| 15 | They were attractive-looking animals and they often allowed us to get quite close . |
| 16 | Wrath entered his eyes and he hastily shut the door . |
| 17 | The silver halo dazzled his eyes and he almost lost his grip . |
| 18 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |
| 19 | I put my hands over my eyes and I just cried . |
| 20 | I felt useful when , during exercise periods , I could have Anderson choking with laughter , hanging on to Brian for support , as I imitated one of the guards and his absurdly curious use of English . |
| 21 | Finally Carrie said guiltily , ‘ Here we are , Julie , going on about all our worries and you never say a word about yours . ’ |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman and I have engaged in lengthy discussions about the problems faced by Belfast taxi drivers and I fully appreciate their fears and concerns . |
| 23 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 24 | ‘ The new asking price was way above our heads and we just could n't afford it any more . ’ |
| 25 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 26 | Erm , 'cos I I did n't put an at all , and like the three blokes , there were only three lads and us anyway . |
| 27 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 28 | At first , however , it focused upon the need to settle inter-union disputes and it only gradually acquired the right to call for joint industrial action from Congress . |
| 29 | Most low attainers lack knowledge of the relationship between metric units and they also have problems with decimals . |
| 30 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |