Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates .
2 If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments .
3 There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes .
4 She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused .
5 No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months .
6 The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path .
7 But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright .
8 Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug .
9 ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
10 He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her .
11 At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson .
12 Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me .
13 They were almost shouting at one another , and both seemed to realise it at the same time .
14 The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk .
15 ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart .
16 If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way .
17 ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis !
18 You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment .
19 When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week .
20 To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house .
21 She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself .
22 The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes .
23 Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light .
24 The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life .
25 It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk .
26 Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule .
27 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
28 Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them .
29 It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time .
30 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
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