Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 2 | Both were short , dumpy and energetic and , seeing them scurry together down the street in their black garb , they looked like a pair of hunting spiders . |
| 3 | On the other hand , I remember seeing them dancing together at a ball shortly before the birth of Prince William . |
| 4 | ‘ Does he want me to stay here in an English prison ? ’ |
| 5 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 6 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 7 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 8 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 9 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 10 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 11 | Despite an unhappy ending , ‘ The Disappearance ’ contains a lot of energy which made me come away from the book feeling hopeful and while I learnt more about the characters , I also found I learnt more about myself and my feelings towards family life and friends . |
| 12 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 13 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 14 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 15 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 16 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 17 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 18 | We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations . |
| 19 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 20 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 21 | But it is also necessary to avoid keeping them standing outside in the rain , or waiting in draughty corridors feeling unwanted while the meal finishes or the speeches are in progress . |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 23 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
| 24 | Well er I went when I was when I went first went and do you know I went into the to the place and do you know I run away from the place . |
| 25 | For the first time since my balls had dropped I felt wholly in the moment , unafflicted by my meddlesome internal projectionist . |
| 26 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 27 | I , I found I skied better in the afternoon , now . |
| 28 | They only come to the surface after dark , and so you 'd never know you had then without a torch . |
| 29 | If you wish to develop assembler language programs , we suggest you do so on a computer which does not hold programs or data that you can not afford to lose . |
| 30 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |