Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 3 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 4 | And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people . |
| 5 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 6 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 7 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 8 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 9 | ‘ That was my own story I put in the column , ’ said old Eddy Moulton stubbornly . |
| 10 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 11 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 13 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 14 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 15 | In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection . |
| 16 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 17 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 18 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 19 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 20 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 21 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 22 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 23 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 24 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 25 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 26 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 27 | And this bit I do before the lesson and I do this , clean it up afterwards . |
| 28 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 29 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 30 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |