Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 2 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
| 3 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
| 4 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 5 | ‘ Then let me tell you that you have no right to include me in your sordid games . |
| 6 | It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them . |
| 7 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 8 | Instead of seeing money — or love , time , success or joy — as in short supply , we will come to see them as our natural birthright , letting them flow through our lives with great ease . |
| 9 | This is not , in fact , the best time of year to see them in their full glory , but you will appreciate , sir , that with the arrival of spring , we will see a change — a very special sort of change — in these surroundings . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have loved elephants since I was a child and it will be fantastic to see them in their natural environment . ’ |
| 11 | She would be putty in my paws when she awoke to see me with my superb physique and elemental masculinity , not to mention my irresistible voice . |
| 12 | It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 . |
| 13 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 14 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 15 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 16 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 17 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 18 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 19 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
| 20 | Large body-size would , in fact , isolate them from their thermal environment because they would exchange heat at lower rates . |
| 21 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 22 | Deficiencies are there but you can counteract them to your personal advantage . |
| 23 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 24 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 25 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 26 | I would like to thank them for their continuing forbearance and understanding , and for their hard work throughout the year . |
| 27 | Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip . |
| 28 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 29 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 30 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |