Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
| 2 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
| 3 | Or maybe a a lot in a sack wheel them down on a wheelbarrow or something . |
| 4 | Morrissey , in particular , would lock himself away behind a shield of management statements and subsequent verbal minders . |
| 5 | Arising from the distal margin of the prementum are two pairs of lobes which collectively from the ligula ; there is an outer pair of paraglossae , and an inner pair of glossae . |
| 6 | The Stravinsky was a welcome up-beat to the new work and it drew a veil over a performance of the overture which apart from a cracking final Presto was emminently forgettable . |
| 7 | The rosewood has contracted slightly across the grain , taking the plastic binding with it and leaving a just-perceptible ‘ step ’ from the neck itself up to the binding . |
| 8 | ‘ And we also have one or two gentlemen who just like the convenience of being able to place a ‘ standing order ’ , as it were , for their wives ' anniversaries and birthdays . |
| 9 | I 'll wheel it along to the cottage and keep it dry for you , and you can call for it tomorrow . |
| 10 | Feeling somewhat naked in the bitter winter 's chill , he had decided to pitch up to his shirt maker in Jermyn Street , his hatter in St James 's and his tailor in Savile Row to deck himself out in a manner which Solomon in all his glory would have found intimidating . |
| 11 | He would deck himself out in the kind of clothes that would give most offence to her were she alive . |
| 12 | a government supply function of ( narrow ) money which together with the government and foreign sector budget constraints determines also the supply of bonds plus foreign assets . |
| 13 | ‘ Tony did some sketches last year and he was going to work them up into a picture — why have n't you , Tony ? ’ |
| 14 | He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships . |
| 15 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 16 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 17 | In the mythology of modern soccer , the ‘ scout ’ , an expert in a shabby raincoat has been replaced by the more avaricious figure of the ‘ agent ’ , the character with the car-phone who along with the club chairman has become the financial ‘ Lucifer ’ of football . |
| 18 | The Thingi is a £7.49 plastic arm that Velcros itself on to the top of your monitor and hangs over the side . |
| 19 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 20 | I think the mi yes , no one did the migration one apart from the Dean , he did a famine , er essay . |
| 21 | One successful type of sponsorship that not only creates a more accurate impression of modern teaching methods but also gives parents something back in the way of entertainment is the sponsored Krypton Factor type event . |
| 22 | In a case like this , it might be best to keep most of the kitchen part of the room to one wall and hive it off from the rest of the area with a long island unit which could incorporate extra work and storage space and possibly a cook top , sink and refrigerator as well . |
| 23 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 24 | You travel round quite a few diffent places and meet famous people and type it up on the computer , 1124 things like that . |
| 25 | My local electronics dealer tells me he is confident that there will be GPS under £1,000 within six months and then the real price war will begin as the manufacturer battle it out for the lucrative yacht market . |
| 26 | So as you watch Manchester United and Nottingham Forest battle it out on the box in the Rumbelows Cup final this afternoon , be aware that technological advances and television 's equivalent of the newspaper circulation war are about to transform coverage of the game beyond all recognition . |
| 27 | In Donegal town every July or August Marys from around the world battle it out in the most amicable ladylike way for the highly prized Mary from Dungloe title . |
| 28 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 29 | One reason for the open justice principle is to keep the judges themselves up to the mark . |
| 30 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |