Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I know some men find me attractive ! ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 4 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 5 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 6 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 7 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
| 8 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 9 | In the next sub-section we employ these tools to analyse the comparative efficiency of perfect competition and pure monopoly . |
| 10 | In order to realise this new imperative we need three paradigm shifts in our thinking . |
| 11 | In this study we classified rectal sensations elicited by isobaric distensions according to the segmental steady state values obtained . |
| 12 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 13 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 14 | Then , around 1700 BC , the Minoans developed from the hieroglyphic script a new syllabic form , today called Linear A. When the Mycenaeans invaded Crete they adapted Linear A to produce a revised form , Linear B. Both scripts have been preserved on clay tablets , most of which are inventories ; however , only a few hundred examples of Linear A exist , whereas there are some thousands of surviving tablets bearing Linear B. |
| 15 | Although the PAC and Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) refused to sign the accord they gave separate undertakings to work for peace . |
| 16 | Once behind their peers they need individual attention to improve their reading . |
| 17 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 18 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 19 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 20 | The US State Department said on Tuesday it suspected Serbian arms destined for Somalia were on the ship which was apparently heading for Kenya . |
| 21 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 22 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 23 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 24 | financial health check I think one company calls it . |
| 25 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
| 26 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 27 | ‘ No wonder you chose this evening to act . ’ |
| 28 | At least when you 're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge . |
| 29 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 30 | In a short flashing dream she saw green water foaming down the basement stairs . |