Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought , I know what my idea of heaven would be , if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity : a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing , destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart , light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor , and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly , with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion … |
| 2 | A woman she passed was telling her husband to put on his shirt or he would bum . |
| 3 | Getting back to the briefing if you would Sergeant . |
| 4 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |
| 5 | The Ukranian Supreme Soviet announced in early March that it would phase out operation of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor over the next five years before closing it down completely . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't set out to find you — it 's sheer coincidence that I should chance to walk along the same street and into the same pub . |
| 7 | She says we 'll get some old bikes so we can bike to the baths instead of walking . |
| 8 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 9 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 10 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
| 11 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 12 | I 'd rather watch men play tennis than I would women ! |
| 13 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 14 | So anyway she had the er settee and brought a friend with her with a well I think it was one of these Range Rovers that you can seat erm , you know , about seven and he dropped the seats down and got the settee in , I do n't know how he managed it . |
| 15 | There was no system of licensing and anyone could embalm. asked how NVQ 's would effect membership of the Institute and stated that in his opinion the number of members of the Institute would decline . |
| 16 | Er , one question if I may Chair ? |
| 17 | She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite . |
| 18 | We do have this process where we can edge-glue the broken pieces so when a piece is broken and a previous glazier put in a piece of lead we can edge bond instead |
| 19 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 20 | This week 's case in point is the fumble-fisted fiasco over Norman Lamont 's Budget announcement that he would phase in VAT on domestic fuels . |
| 21 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 22 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 23 | Powerless to stop the violation , the peacekeepers then watched Croatian Serbs break into UN-guarded storage areas to remove their heavy weapons so they could retaliate. — Reuter |
| 24 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 25 | From which we make a deduction and I 'll come back to that deduction in a moment if I may sir . |
| 26 | You will learn most from the diet if you can time it so that there are not too many parties , outings or other disruptive events , especially during the retesting period . |
| 27 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |
| 28 | Mr Mayor if I may amendment if I may . |
| 29 | I have seen for myself the value of ACET 's work in the community and I would whole heartedly recommend other churches get behind the work in any way they can . ’ |
| 30 | can do it on Monday and we can People will have until Friday then to ask . |