Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 2 | Since joining his local unit , however , he had been given nothing to do but monotonous night drilling in almost inaccessible fields with shovels or hurleys as substitute rifles , dire shortage of arms and ammunition having restricted the unit to only two sessions of real firing practice . |
| 3 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 4 | From the punning just mentioned we see that masculine sexuality is confirmed not only by women , passively , but also by other men , actively . |
| 5 | She found herself praying that this batch would be more to his liking than the last . |
| 6 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 7 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
| 8 | How has he shown that this man , who 's come up from poverty , understands poverty and is prepared to do something about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know what to think when Grand Met telephoned me on Wednesday afternoon , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The figure on page 28 shows the make-up of these simplest nuclei and illustrates what happens when two deuterium nuclei collide . |
| 11 | If you have any of your class members attending please let them know that this payment is now due . |
| 12 | Please let me know whether this proposition is of interest either by writing to me or by telephoning either myself or my colleague [ NAME ] . |
| 13 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 14 | In passing she noted that Open Desktop was n't original to SCO . |
| 15 | They put you to sleep and this clicking continues |
| 16 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 17 | Lewis says he hopes that public pressure will force Bowe to fight him but after the euphoria of his win over Ruddock and the anticipation of becoming champion , he finds himself as far from the title as ever . |
| 18 | So he , Mr Major , is wrong when he says he believes that that dialogue , that process that you began with Gerry Adams has run its course do you |
| 19 | The Second Symphony is a work that wears well and suffice it to say that this newcomer can hold its head high in this company . |
| 20 | Suffice it to say that this discourse is generalising and intemperate , and lacks depth and clarity . |
| 21 | At the time of writing it seems that digital tape recorders sold to the public will have various anti-piracy measures built into them for this very reason . |
| 22 | In the end they were called ‘ contexts ’ , a term which aptly describes what happens when other material is inserted within them , but nevertheless is far from perfect . |
| 23 | Let us hope that one day the council will wake up and end all street trading . |
| 24 | Let us hope that this year we shall see an increase in the butterfly population , notably that rare member of the family Lyaenidae , known as the Foinland Blue . " |
| 25 | Let us hope that this situation does not arise and VAT is not imposed on books . |
| 26 | Let us remember that that assurance comes from British Rail , who , it was discovered in Committee proceedings on the Bill , designed platforms that were too short to take the trains that would come in to them . |
| 27 | ( Let us pray that this fate may be averted . ) |
| 28 | BANG ! 27.3 million Britons tuned in to see who fired that long-overdue bullet at Southfork 's J R Ewing in November . |
| 29 | He gives it very well , and he 's on on his way to an evening engagement , and the professor , says I 'm feeling very tired tonight , and I do n't think I want to give er , th the talk , but I do n't know , I I obviously I have to go , the chauffeur said , no problem , he said , all we need is to change hats , I 've heard you give that same talk so many times , I would actually give it . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show ! |