Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 4 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 5 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 9 | I want to support an idealistic publication |
| 10 | I want to install an ornamental niche . |
| 11 | ‘ Now I want to keep an open mind . |
| 12 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 13 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 16 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 17 | Although this area has not suffered too much in the past it was mentioned that now many farm buildings are being declared ‘ redundant ’ and given planning consent for residential development ( barn conversions etc ) while a short distance away there is an application for a farmhouse from someone wanting to start an agricultural holding . |
| 18 | I pause to make an initial observation . |
| 19 | I happened to have an extra ticket for the recital last night … |
| 20 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 21 | I seem to get an awful lot of shitty pants — they 're both [ carer 's father and his brother , who live together ] incontinent in their own way … |
| 22 | I seem to get an awful lot of , it 's like |
| 23 | I recall feeling an empty numbness on that day and for many months after . |
| 24 | A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a very informal place here — I like to keep an open door and staff and residents can wander where they want . |
| 26 | ‘ I like to keep an open mind on most things , Fran , but if it upsets you then forget it . |
| 27 | I remember seeing an early plan ( of the Bois de Boulogne ) on which the rivers and other parts of the park had been painted green , in watercolour , by the august consort of the Emperor . |
| 28 | I remember having an extraordinary experience watching the film of Apocalypse Now . |
| 29 | ( I remember having an urgent telephone call from a professional astronomer who believed that he had found a bright nova . |
| 30 | Taking all this into account , I decided to choose an All-Time England One-Day XI . |