Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 2 | Sweeney has worked at Pentonville for almost nine years and is in charge of the general kitchen floor . |
| 3 | We were , for example , the first company to comply with the ‘ Green Dot ’ requirement in Germany for environmentally friendly packaging . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been away from Germany for almost two weeks . |
| 5 | Damien Rosco has worked in the Design Office at Runcorn for nearly two years . |
| 6 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 7 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 8 | Wales is almost always treated as though it were an offshoot of England although there is a small group of civil servants in Cardiff for specifically Welsh matters . |
| 9 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 10 | On the base they are inscribed with the name of a former owner , Silius , who served as legate of Upper Germany between A.D. 14 and A.D. 21 . |
| 11 | Probably the most important thing about George is why he continued to travel with Lennie for so long and why he needed him . |
| 12 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 13 | I have known Mrs Taylor for over three years . |
| 14 | There appears to be some internal debate going on down in Palo Alto about how much damage Sun Microsystems Inc 's recent Sparcstation 10 announcement is doing to its own workstation efforts . |
| 15 | They fumbled away the game , 37-14 , to the Colts , and lost quarterback Jim Kelly for perhaps four weeks with a shoulder separation . |
| 16 | And he still practised sufficiently the ways of the Highland families to send his daughter to Inverness for as good an education as a girl could get within reach at that time . |
| 17 | Feed the kids ? I ca n't leave Mike and Sarah for too long- ’ |
| 18 | He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career . |
| 19 | And back in 1945 , Vice-Marshall Donald Bennett , a Liberal , was MP for West Middlesbrough for just 31 days . |
| 20 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 21 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 22 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 23 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 24 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 25 | And when they lost Jamie Sylvester and Boughton Hall 's Barry Metcalf for just 11 runs the outlook was bleak . |
| 26 | The effect off the coast of Ecuador is twofold : first , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast ( a few degrees north and south of the equator ) are unusually cold — indeed , so powerful is the upwelling that a belt of this oddly cold water extends west from Ecuador for nearly 3,000 miles . |
| 27 | She has been an ally of Portugal for over 600 years . |
| 28 | And anyway , the thought of spending January and February in Spain or Portugal for as little as £10 a day seems attractive in its own right . |
| 29 | the RAF at Ely for so many days and have |
| 30 | Because the shuttle will be out of contact with a TDRS for about half its 90-minute orbit of the Earth , scientists on board will be cut off from those on the ground who designed the experiments . |