Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might secretly find this tall , elegant man extremely disturbing , but she was n't prepared to let him guess that fact . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm delighted to know you have such faith in me ! ’ |
| 3 | But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions . |
| 4 | Northern men seem to have most sex : it 's slightly more common for them to be having sex 4–6 times a week , they 're least likely to have had only one partner in the past year , and most likely to say they get enough sex . |
| 5 | When allocating time for the garter carriage , first decide whether it is possible to leave it knitting all night . |
| 6 | Some of Lovins 's old colleagues will be frankly unhappy to see him laying such stress on ‘ the nation ’ as a subgroup of humanity . |
| 7 | She was impressed to see they had electric light . |
| 8 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 9 | There are two areas in the Project Video programme in which we need to have some stills or artwork and I wonder if you might be able to help us find suitable material ? |
| 10 | So although we know the fundamental equations that govern the brain , we are quite unable to use them to predict human behavior . |
| 11 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 12 | I had never been able to persuade her to accept any money for her kindness and tried to reciprocate by doing any small repairs she needed to her flat , and by supplying occasional tickets for the theatre , for the tennis at Wimbledon , and for the races at Epsom . |
| 13 | Unfortunately we have not been able to persuade her to have ophthalmic screening , so the presence of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium is not known . |
| 14 | You see , there are people in the City who would pay a vast sum of money to be able to boast they had real rabbit at one of their dinners . ’ |
| 15 | The only reason I did this was I did n't want anyone to know where I really went which was to a flat in Park Town where I am ashamed to say I watched some sex videos with three other people . |
| 16 | Although they face daily and substantial fluctuations in demand for their output , they wish to ensure that they do have sufficient staff available to help them satisfy this demand . |
| 17 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 18 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 19 | I read , for example , that the Russian MiG fighters are built to very high specifications and that the Russians are keen to sell them to raise hard currency . |
| 20 | Put a bucket of food on the ramp at a distance from the horse sufficient to make him put one foot on the ramp . |