Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis . |
| 2 | ‘ When putting on shoes they should be checked to make sure no harmful insect has hidden in them during the night . ’ |
| 3 | Mme Pettifer , my man Georges , I think , has consulted with you on the subject of the wines . |
| 4 | This reasoning has also been applied to service in Italy ( which has objected to none of the methods listed in Article 10 ) , with the assertion that Article 10(c) does not authorise a separate method of service . |
| 5 | I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel . |
| 6 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 7 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 8 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 9 | Erm we are reassuring everyone who has written to us in the that all of the will be taking it fully into consideration when the money application is is considered . |
| 10 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |
| 11 | Romance off-screen on the series has turned into something of an epidemic . |
| 12 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 13 | Evaluating the options will involve you in doing some of the calculations that you would normally expect to find done for you in a respectable feasibility study . |
| 14 | erm on the social services issue , yes , indeed , we have chosen not to provide for additional statutory duties that the government has imposed on us with no erm accompanying finance . |
| 15 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 16 | He came out with a wonderful phrase which has stayed with me over the years . |
| 17 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 18 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 19 | And other players will be added to the list after Keegan has spoken to them over the weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he replies and goes on to ask her to take care of two suitcases full of Austrian shoes he has brought with him with the intention of selling on the black market . |
| 21 | Then comes Christmas morning , which explodes joyfully as children rush to the Christmas tree to see what Santa has brought for them during the night . |
| 22 | Reserve team manager Eddie Kyle said : ‘ Parkinson has trained with us for a while . |
| 23 | Years ago I read a sentence which has remained with me through the years . |
| 24 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 25 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 26 | This is the first time that the award has gone to somebody from the hotel and catering industry , or indeed from the service sector as a whole . |
| 27 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 28 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 29 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 30 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |