Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 2 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 3 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 4 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 5 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 6 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 7 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 8 | 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 9 | speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ; |
| 10 | Note that I added a minor 3rd ( C ) in this run to give it more of a country flavour ! |
| 11 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 12 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 13 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 14 | BR staff and preservationists pulled out all the stops to have everything right on the day even though they were hampered by high winds and heavy rain . |
| 15 | The only small mammal to make it even to the top 20 was the meerkat , cover star of our February 1987 issue and subject of Meerkats United , one of the most popular Wildlife on One programmes ever shown . |
| 16 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 17 | The acceptance of that affection would have automatically given that partner the right to carry it further into the realm of sex , where so often , so little affection is given . |
| 18 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 19 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 20 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 21 | They are , however , making use of a tool to help them just as a botanist might use a magnifying glass . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll need some externals to tap you properly into the Dream . |
| 23 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 24 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 26 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 27 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 28 | But it would be well for British business to remind itself occasionally of the message contained in Figure 1 ( page 60 ) : the fastest-growing markets are not in Europe . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you , there 's no need to say anything else on the matter , ’ Maggie replied . |
| 30 | THANK you , too — for giving me an opportunity to put you right on a simple matter of fact . |