Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 2 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 3 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 4 | They were nice , or all right , kind or likeable or easy to get on with . |
| 5 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 6 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 7 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 8 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 9 | Neil Miller , the dealing manager , was critical of this manoeuvre , saying of the dealer : " He could be doing four or five deals back in the office . |
| 10 | You get the same piece of pizza whether it 's two shared out between six , four shared out between twelve or one shared out between three or twenty four shared out between a lot of people . |
| 11 | S. Kettering was either a particularly serious-minded chap or anxious to show off to his tenants . |
| 12 | Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads . |
| 13 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got an hour or two to fill in before my train . |
| 15 | And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village . |
| 16 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 17 | One or two went down without taking examinations . |
| 18 | And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence . |
| 19 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 20 | I 'll squeeze a minute or two to come back at lunchtime , and I 'll bring some things for your throat then . |
| 21 | ‘ I most certainly take exception to one or two hints around at the moment that our biggest problem is keeping our cool . |
| 22 | After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia . |
| 23 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 24 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 25 | and that fills in with five other things |
| 26 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 27 | And that takes up with the . |
| 28 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |
| 29 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 30 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |