Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 2 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 3 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 4 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I began by reading English and French and , after my mother 's trial , I was allowed to continue my studies by the personal intervention of Rákosi — by his special grace — because my godmother , my father 's first wife , was an extremely popular actress on the national stage , a great star . |
| 6 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 7 | As an ENP I could discuss my patients with the senior medical staff only ; in practice this meant the registrars . |
| 8 | I propose , therefore , to enjoy this last cigarette , warm my hands above the stumpy candle , and think with due care and compassion about the true story I have to relate . |
| 9 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 10 | I d be interested to see who else has my ideas of the best team … |
| 11 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 12 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 13 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 14 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 15 | Earlier the Strabane girl and Eileen Rose Power had combined to halve their foursomes with the strong English pair Julie Hall and Kirsty Speak . |
| 16 | He also stated that his government would confine its discussions with the federal government to matters of immigration , communications and labour , and would maintain bilateral relations with individual provinces on issues of mutual concern . |
| 17 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 18 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |
| 19 | Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act . |
| 20 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
| 21 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 22 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 23 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 24 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 25 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 26 | In the early 1980s , the Metropolitan police installed Divisional Information Officers to monitor the rise and fall of ‘ tension indicators ’ ( e.g. violence or abuse towards police officers , increasing numbers of complaints against the police and a decline in public co-operation ) in specially targeted local communities and report their findings to the Central Information Unit within the Metropolitan Public Order Branch ( Lloyd , 1989:273–4 ) . |
| 27 | Nutty paused , trying to marshal her convictions into the right words . |
| 28 | The government can make its value judgements about distribution or equality and can pursue its views about the desirable degree of vertical equity without impairing the efficient functioning of a free market economy . |
| 29 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 30 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |