Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mum made him wear sensible shoes ( bit of an admission , this ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 3 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 4 | Experts say they cause unseen damage to the environment and to people . |
| 5 | Although this might appear unfriendly — and is also a gesture of warning to other males — the female will usually stand her ground , letting the male know she means serious business . |
| 6 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 7 | The rescue co-ordinators include Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals abandoned plans to use whale song on Sunday , when Mr Goold found he needed stronger amplification of his recordings . |
| 8 | These have sturdy telescopic aluminium legs which are well braced to provide good support , and are fitted with pan-and-tilt heads to enable you to make smooth camera moves . |
| 9 | If you are disabled , the Social Services Department can give you gadgets to enable you to operate various appliances . |
| 10 | Cancer victim Alfred McTear , 48 , is suing Imperial Tobacco and his home became a temporary courtroom to enable him to give preliminary evidence for a court case he is unlikely to live long enough to see . |
| 11 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |
| 12 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 13 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 14 | He suggested that the club expected him to score more points . |
| 15 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 16 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 17 | ‘ Does Edward know you feel this way ? ’ |
| 18 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 19 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 20 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 21 | DLT allows you to delete complete directories , if that sounds a bit drastic , do n't worry , there are several safe guards with this program . |
| 22 | Richard says he does some songs , but would n't inflict them on a paying audience . |
| 23 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 24 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 25 | This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender . |
| 26 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 27 | The use of the pros mutant to remove innervation allows us to divide postsynaptic development into innervation-independent and innervation-dependent events . |
| 28 | Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations . |
| 29 | Leonora 's heart sank at the prospect of a whole fortnight without him , and as if scenting victory Penry moved closer , his long forefinger caressing her drooping lower lip . |
| 30 | PNF stretching allows you to gain extra centimetres of movement at your joints . |