Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now
2 We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in
3 He needed a wife for professional reasons and I was it .
4 Aside from the eclipses , January , February and March are key months for professional matters and your personal aspirations .
5 You may be invited to write for professional journals if you have a book published related to your career area .
6 Thus an expert may need to carry out his own independent investigations if the parties have not submitted adequate material on which to make a decision : and the expert might be liable for professional negligence if he did not do so .
7 He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London .
8 We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked .
9 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
10 I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid .
11 Mercifully the traffic progresses for fifty yards before it stalls again , and the Rasta does not pursue her further , but Robyn keeps a nervous eye on her rear-view mirror .
12 for fifty quid and he only lives , well , hundred yards , if that , from the shop .
13 The relationships formed between pregnant women and their obstetricians are complex .
14 John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing .
15 On Sept. 9 John Joseph Kamotho , secretary-general of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) , threatened to " de-register " the Law Society of Kenya , whose chairman , Paul Muite , had been criticized in the pro-government media for his calls for political reform since his appointment in March [ see p. 38182 ] .
16 walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now .
17 Are there any other suggestions for possible works while we 're on the arrangements and the programme ?
18 The police took his house apart looking for possible clues after she vanished from a leisure centre car park .
19 The study also showed that , while marketing skills are important , technological advantage can still be a key factor for innovative success and its value should not be underestimated .
20 I 'm going through adolescent love-trauma and I cry when they play ‘ Smoke gets in your eyes ’ . '
21 next month about that cream that I use .
22 She half turned to look at Curtis , raised her heavily bandaged hand and shuddered as she added , ‘ I get nightmares now , just thinking about that man and what he did to me . ’
23 And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ?
24 I know all about that scene and what it can do to a man . ’
25 She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo .
26 I had doubts about that cover when I saw it because someone on seeing the flag would think it 's a political novel , whereas it 's not .
27 Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs .
28 I always knew there was somefink a bit fishy about that bloke when 'e lodged wiv Florrie .
29 Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once .
30 I just worry about that song because I do n't wan na be any part of kids thinking drugs are cooler than they are , 'cos they 're not for everybody .
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