Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tranquiliser and the bottle are poor comforters when the time comes to part for ever from those we love . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you really bring a boat across tonight in that ? ’ |
| 3 | The Government has limited public sector pay rises to one point five per cent , although teachers will receive a rise of just above half of one per cent . |
| 4 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 5 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 6 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 7 | One of the reasons why er Kenneth has a respectable crippling this country , is because there is more flexibility over there to this country . |
| 8 | But he has hardly had a trouble-free run since then with most of his problems self-inflicted . |
| 9 | ‘ With Chris being injured , I would have brought Budgie over here for this match . |
| 10 | He could snatch a coffee and sandwich in the bar over there at some point . |
| 11 | As in the aftermath of abolition there were signs of a consolidationist ’ outlook at least amongst some of the older generation of reformers and those parliamentarians like Buxton who felt bound to support the legislative compromise solution of 1833 . |
| 12 | Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives . |
| 13 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 14 | Erm it was sort of really from this book it 's nineteen ninety one erm which is |
| 15 | picture of just like that yeah but this geezer 's like got skiing glasses on and this huge joint and like all these attachments just going like that look like broccoli but like that yeah . |
| 16 | I think also if you read it through there 's no insurance jargon in there at all , except to say that the policy 's underwritten by a Department of Trade approved insurer . |
| 17 | But she loved him enough to understand his silence and found courage from somewhere for both of them . |
| 18 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |
| 19 | He wished there was someone else he could trust , someone else to form an alliance with instead of this comic figure of a Russian policeman . |
| 20 | They lost their right , last eight last season ; so far this seas , season , they 've looked good , they 've got some new Americans there , Scott Golf , he 's playing well , the two minders , Mettassler and Stewart Thomas , they 've been superb , and Dan Prater , sharp shooter , oh , he could hit a ball from anywhere into that net . |
| 21 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 22 | I am used to gifts , she thought , used to returning them politely , if not on every occasion at least on most . |
| 23 | You 'll also notice that we put a provision in there of half a million for expansion of packing cos we believe that we may need this erm with the production of the o you for the carry on . |
| 24 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 25 | and they moved the sink from there into that side place , you know , made that like a kitchen , but it 's , it 's rightly weird house well now |
| 26 | A trainee is no earthly use in here at all . ’ |
| 27 | I was very disappointed that there 's no comment in here at all . |
| 28 | And there 's a flat over there on that walk what deals with drugs . |
| 29 | Woodie , observing their gallant start , longed to lend them his Chart 3 and to impress upon them that there was one competent owner at least at this end of the Reach . |
| 30 | ONE of the more abiding human mysteries is why the English — a proverbially tight-lipped and stiff-necked race — should have excelled in the louche world of the theatre for upwards of half a millennium . |