Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 2 | Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees . |
| 3 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 4 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 5 | The modern films are scientifically more respectable and probably better films , but every word of commentary trembles with piety and no chance is ever missed to remind us that man is the intruder , the destroyer , the only sinful animal in the biosphere . |
| 6 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 7 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 8 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 9 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 10 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 11 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 12 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 13 | To start giving them new projects is unrealistic and we ca n't authorise it . |
| 14 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to talk , but I do n't have to tell you that time is short . |
| 16 | Try to persuade her that life is still worth living . |
| 17 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 18 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 19 | He said that a recent report in New Scientist that the Turin lead experiment had been censored , coupled with the conversion of several eminent scientists to the anti-lead cause had convinced him that action was urgent . |
| 20 | I 've told them that Tig is the new guardian of the threshold . |
| 21 | The round dance does not tell the recruits the direction to food , but it does tell them that food is nearby . |
| 22 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 23 | The only reason I 've beaten you this time is look at that sixteen Do n't even know four one for are you ? |
| 24 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 25 | No all he 's given me each day is paper money plus about one fifty . |