Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those accused told me that a proper legal defence cost him only £140.00 with legal aid , which he got back because they won . |
| 2 | Professor Dowd 's line dividing Friday from Saturday rendered it late Saturday morning in Tonga , and slightly later on Friday morning in Samoa , just a couple of hundred miles away . |
| 3 | Cor bloody happening , Neil put ours together mate |
| 4 | Mr Enoch Powell asked himself only weeks before the riots erupted in the British cities in 1981 . |
| 5 | His passage cost him just £10 . |
| 6 | Mr Hill 's huge jackpot cost him just 54p . |
| 7 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 8 | This group 's unsuccessful conduct of the war incurred them much unpopularity , and discontent at their domination of the king , together with rumours of corruption , self-seeking and extortion , underlay the commons ' attack upon them in the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 9 | The rain hit us somewhere north of Huarmey , a solid wall of water lit by flashes of lightning . |
| 10 | Sales figures due out next week are expected to show Vauxhall achieved its best-ever share of the UK market in 1992 . |
| 11 | Farmer Adrian Westbury discovered them yesterday afternoon . |
| 12 | Though not looking to Christmas to make up lost sales , Amberstone found itself about 15% up , said Sandy Bennet . |
| 13 | By using test-kits and keeping a record of the readings obtained you also build-up and invaluable data bank for future reference . |
| 14 | But the one remained known as Willibrord ( despite an unimpeachable Roman allegiance ) , while the other called himself thereafter Boniface . |
| 15 | Beth called herself all kinds of a fool , for she herself had not realised how quickly the girl was growing up . |
| 16 | Joe offered me more gravy . |
| 17 | The first GPs of the season brought me more success than I 'd ever dreamed . ’ |
| 18 | But away from the cameras few people gave them much chance of a future together . |
| 19 | Johnson gave them more money , the not inconsiderable sum of a shilling each , for which generosity they hailed him , addressing him as ‘ My Lord ’ . |
| 20 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
| 21 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 22 | The dice players ignored him so Corbett lay on his cot bed and tried to marshall his thoughts . |
| 23 | The political élite paid it more attention than it did radio , even though the latter had a greater importance insofar as size of audience was concerned . |
| 24 | ‘ Taking them into Europe gave me more satisfaction than anything I 've done in my career , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Violet sipped her bloody Mary : vodka and tomato juice . |
| 26 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 27 | The Supergrid gave them more freedom to optimise their siting by these criteria . |
| 28 | A BRITON was shot dead protecting his fiancee when muggers ambushed them only hours after they arrived in Florida . |
| 29 | ‘ Nurse sent me home early.because I 'm ill , ’ she said in a small voice and walked slowly up the stairs . |
| 30 | DEVON youngster Lucie Ahl recorded her best-ever victory after beating American Patti O'Reilly 7–5 6–2 in the first round of the Wimbledon qualifying tournament at Roehampton . |