Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 2 | I I I take , I I take that equal opportunities does raise peoples erm , blood pressure to say the least . |
| 3 | Oh yeah , I think , I think it 's because I I had that severe hair style I think , you know I looked hard . |
| 4 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 5 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 6 | However , some of his advice to Jane Fowler looks like the utterings of someone who enjoys that elevated status rather too much . |
| 7 | We went and did that ourselves it needed that concerted effort . |
| 8 | ‘ I myself put that very point to her . ’ |
| 9 | Baker , who described his role in the talks as attempting to impress upon the Iraqi government the determination of the 28-country coalition to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait , said that he had " heard nothing which showed any Iraqi flexibility whatever " . |
| 10 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | But the frequency with which I receive such public congratulations ( to the great embarrassment of my nine-year-old son ) seems to indicate that at least a proportion of those who buy the book actually do read it . |
| 13 | At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid . |
| 14 | Which I think any sensible person ought to come to , which is , that human beings are neither basically bad , evil , and anti-social , no more are they basically good , altruistic and cooperative . |
| 15 | Erm 's Meadow , Close , erm and er then we 've got the double track runs into the station up here , past the cattle pens which you saw those white things on the photograph , various signal posts , the goods shed , there , erm an engine shed , a small engine shed which was built to accommodate , normally only one loco . |
| 16 | Every time you put some plant material in a book or press , you must have an efficient way of knowing the date on which you pressed those particular items , so that you know when to remove them . |
| 17 | So why , when choosing a ‘ soul mate ’ , do you rush to the pedestal on which you place all foreign cars ? |
| 18 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |
| 19 | I know somebody who wants some black boots , I might see some black |
| 20 | But the two most systematic modern contributions to our general thinking about the undergraduate curriculum are the recent paper by Donald ( 1986 ) and the book by Becher ( 1989a ) , which itself reviews some previous attempts . |
| 21 | The water used by the gas-cleaning plant is cooled by a cooling tower which itself emits two water-vapour plumes , the density of which varies according to climatic conditions . |
| 22 | Instead , the new provisions will operate only until passage of a draft law on strikes , which itself bans such industrial action where it would endanger ‘ lives and health ’ . |
| 23 | The tiles which she painted possessed great potential in kitchen design , he had informed her . |
| 24 | Every week she wrote to Liza , letters to which she received brief erratic replies . |
| 25 | This would produce the heterogeneity which she believes feminist psychological theory needs . |
| 26 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 27 | This has been at least implicitly recognised by pluralists because , as Polsby suggests , if true , the elitists ' and Marxists contention of the importance of non-observable influences and constraints emanating from one class or group would have important repercussions for the way in which one characterises Western political systems . |
| 28 | What his theory does not clearly specify is the method for determining the extent to which we observe cultural evolutionary achievements and the circumstances in which interference through institutional design is justified . |
| 29 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 30 | Now that 's something that 's difficult for us to do , because the more dangerous , the more erm , the premises should present the greatest life risk , are not necessarily the ones over which we have strict legislative control . |