Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 2 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 3 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 4 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 5 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 6 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 7 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 8 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 9 | Virtually everyone has heard about the importance of adequate protein in the diet . |
| 10 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 11 | Everyone has to join in the charade : ah , what a good family we are ! |
| 12 | Erm I wanted to ask erm I ga I assume that everyone has read through the bumf that I 've been merrily distributing . |
| 13 | Everyone has left for the weekend . |
| 14 | We should extend the same decency to English people who come to live in Scotland , the vast majority of whom want to integrate into the community while retaining their own distinctive national identity . |
| 15 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 16 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 17 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 18 | " Are you sure that nothing has happened since the weekend ? |
| 19 | Clearly , as far as our lending bank is concerned , nothing has happened to the money supply . |
| 20 | Until he begins to write cheques , i.e. to spend , nothing has happened to the balance sheet . |
| 21 | Nothing has happened in the interim to alter substantially the conclusion of Mr Attlee 's Engine Room that |
| 22 | One may argue that by moving the magnetic field nothing has changed at the position of the wire . |
| 23 | Nothing has changed in the bedrock of Japanese industry to cause this . |
| 24 | Despite government and party documents since the early 1980s accepting much of Komarek 's argument , nothing has changed in the structure of the economy . |
| 25 | But absolutely nothing has changed in the way we work or how our customers place their orders and run their businesses . |
| 26 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 27 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 28 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 29 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 30 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |