Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 2 | The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE ) announced on Nov. 13 that the parties of the eight remaining candidates , all of whom failed to secure a required minimum of 4 per cent of the votes , would lose their legal status . |
| 3 | Er does everyone want to do a general essay or do people want to do a s a specific thing ? |
| 4 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 5 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 6 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 7 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 8 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 9 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 10 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 11 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 12 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 13 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 14 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 15 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
| 16 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 17 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
| 18 | And it 's self employment so the couriers that we er supplied with the parcels with are the p- umm er , they 're liable for tax and insurance if any is due , I mean earn a certain amount of money before you start |
| 19 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 20 | Cos I mean get a good deal |
| 21 | That does I think form a significant element because it makes a difference of nearly two and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 22 | I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however . |
| 23 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 24 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 25 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 26 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Some kids where I lived dug a dead person up , ’ says Dmitry . |
| 28 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 29 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
| 30 | There are some marvellous graphics among these new breeds but , having never particularly liked comics , I failed to overcome a fundamental irritation with the medium of pictures and words combined . |