Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wan na do it from what , half eight el half eight they wanted till eleven or |
| 2 | You can see that the page is entitled Covermaster for ten thousand pounds sum assured , so basically whatever figures are quoted underneath are for every ten thousand pounds of life cover available to your client , so it you want forty thousand you multiply by four etcetera . |
| 3 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 4 | In two species examined the crystals lie parallel to the surface and in another two they lie at a steep angle . |
| 5 | This last she addressed to Jill . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm real sorry I shouted at you . |
| 7 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 8 | Test-drive a Viva soon — see how much extra it brings to family motoring . |
| 9 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 10 | Do you remember football wise back in nineteen sixty-six they played against England and all they did was kick our players . |
| 11 | In early 1946 he moved into 19 Carlyle Mansions , a large and comfortable flat on the third floor , beneath the one in which Henry James had once lived . |
| 12 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 13 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 14 | In the early seventies I worked in Bergen in Germany , which had been the site of the Belsen concentration camp , and the whole place was heavy with an air of misery , fear and evil . |
| 15 | In the winter of 1518 all I cared about was surviving and life was hard in Paris . |
| 16 | By the early 1760s he lived in Derby and had launched a career as a cartographer . |
| 17 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1960s , the firm had established a reputation in the electronics and motor industries , and in the early 1970s it expanded into oil , petroleum and chemicals , and established a foothold in the merchant banking sector . |
| 19 | In the early Fifties he passed through a difficult period when his directorship came under fierce attack from some art critics , none fiercer than the collector and famous critic of the Modern movement , Douglas Cooper . |
| 20 | During the late 1580s , Hooker became involved in a bitter theological dispute with the Presbyterian , Walter Travers , and as a result in the early 1590s he retired to a country living in Wiltshire to compose a literary apologia for the church which had been created in 1559 . |
| 21 | ‘ Who lives there in splendour so solitary that in June nineteen forty-one he jumped from a balcony and tried to kill himself . |
| 22 | It was up nineteen five I think for tourists or nineteen three somewhere ni Just after the turn of the century . |
| 23 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 24 | In early 1945 I went with U Kyaw Min to Ceylon to talk to British forces which were then thought to be waiting for a seaborne invasion of Burma . |
| 25 | In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 26 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 27 | ‘ About a dozen that I know of , ’ Josie said , ‘ and I think I know them all . ’ |
| 28 | For the cash-happy Eighties she absconded to 57th Street . |
| 29 | In nineteen ninety , ninety one we asked for six point four seven four million in poll tax . |
| 30 | Ten ninety nine he paid for his . |