Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is still referred to as Thatcherite but as that term begins to lose its currency my own view of him is of a free marketeer with a strong sense of economic realism . |
| 2 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 3 | She made her voice its happy forest . |
| 4 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 5 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 6 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 7 | She did not give their talk her whole attention . |
| 8 | I 'd made her question her own heart . ’ |
| 9 | Well you put your stuff your own stuff and yourself first . |
| 10 | Laura leaned on the balcony and rested her hands one either side of her . |
| 11 | As he shook his head his long hair parted and Rachel saw the gleam of an earring . |
| 12 | Many owners do not realize what effect their own behaviour has on their dog . |
| 13 | D' you remember that time that that fat boy said , save your seat you bloody cow , sit in it . |
| 14 | In evaluating its credentials our prime example will again be Rawls ' theory . |
| 15 | His problem is that he is so busy with the GAA team that he is unable to give his hotels his undivided attention . |
| 16 | Tot he cynics their jangling set might seem like an hour and a half of the same song , but , if you 've got a winning formula why not stick to it ? |
| 17 | Tot he cynics their jangling set might seem like an hour and a half of the same song , but , if you 've got a winning formula why not stick to it ? |
| 18 | And there was Winifred , who had tried to teach her son her own form of passive resistance to Bill 's rage and had only , perhaps she now thought , exposed him to a homosexual religious maniac . |
| 19 | When people do not know how to bring up or what to teach their children their cultural heritage is indeed in jeopardy . |
| 20 | She was going to live her life her own way . |
| 21 | That was why this election offered his party its best opportunity for years . |
| 22 | Ads on the subways asked us to call a confidential hotline if we knew what crimes our local school board was committing . |
| 23 | ‘ I THINK MY FANCIES OUR NEW MILKMAN . ’ |
| 24 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 25 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 26 | ( Burns avoided this move , which is what gives his protest its particular dignity . |
| 27 | This week parliament gave his policy its strong support , and most Australians are with Mr Hawke too . |
| 28 | But they 've got that get up and do it attitude which all bands should subscribe to . |
| 29 | But they 've got that get up and do it attitude which all bands should subscribe to . |
| 30 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |