Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I am completely tied up with filming during the whole of June but I will certainly make the effort to visit you some time in July . |
| 3 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 4 | Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’ |
| 5 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't need a doctor to tell me that . |
| 7 | 1 Pass round all the stories so that everyone has a chance to read them all . |
| 8 | Rarely has a film given me such a warm glow . |
| 9 | The genealogist has a job to sort it all out , so it is no wonder that many rose lists get into a mess and tend to lump types together more for brevity and convenience than for strict botanical clarity . |
| 10 | And who needs a book to tell him that ? |
| 11 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 12 | If Francis had made a will have you any idea how it would have gone ? ’ |
| 13 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 14 | ‘ You might have had the decency to order us some drink that was n't called Jim . ’ |
| 15 | One man had done that , one man had had the power to call them all out here on to the moor , away from their homes , their jobs . |
| 16 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 17 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 18 | Well , you deserve that , standin' by me like you did and givin' me your bed when I 'ad n't got a farthing to call me own . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm disappointed for those under 14s who have n't had a chance to see me this time , but I 'm looking forward to doing a full scale tour probably next year when everyone will have a chance to come along , ’ she added . |
| 20 | I placed the plastic bag of dope on top of the cigarette packet , in clear view , but made no move to roll her another joint . |
| 21 | By using the latest technology , he has developed a method to do it all at once . |
| 22 | I 'd like to see a psychiatrist convince me this is all in the mind . |
| 23 | for the easy job , you set your stall out , you make a jig to sort it all out , you can slide it in , zip , zip , zip , done you could probably say what , three an hour out , if you 're lucky , two and a half , three an hour |
| 24 | For instance , ‘ You are going to try to persuade a friend to lend you some money ’ places the participant in the experiential frame , as the negotiation will occur and the outcome could take different forms . |
| 25 | Roddick merely called it ‘ self-financing ’ , because she did n't have the capital to do it any other way . |
| 26 | Will licking the soil do her any harm and will I need to worm her more often as two ponies go in the paddock as well ? |
| 27 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 28 | Now it could be contended that any manager who needed a booklet to tell him this should be on the shopfloor . |
| 29 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 30 | ‘ You need n't ring her especially , or her parents will think it peculiar if you ring every day to tell her that from me . |