Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khumalo 's allegations were strengthened by similar claims by two gang members who said that the security forces had recruited , trained and armed them to carry out attacks on ANC supporters . |
| 2 | It was important to learn about , for example , bookselling from experienced booksellers who then , accepting the genuineness of my interest and the possible value of my research , were generous in helping me with it and allowing me to carry out surveys in bookshops . |
| 3 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 4 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 5 | ‘ I found out 80% of Fijians who served on Christmas Island are dead . |
| 6 | Clever communication ‘ I spell out words on Julia 's hand , ’ says Lisa |
| 7 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 8 | I walked down Loreto to Coricancha . |
| 9 | I raised over £4OO in total , which I gave to Cancer Research and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . ’ |
| 10 | There 's a pain in my lung when I breathe , and I keep on thinking of pneumonia . |
| 11 | Four and six when I went down Nottingham to work , at the box place , Henry 's I got seven and six a week . |
| 12 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 13 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 14 | I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I burn up masses of calories . ’ |
| 16 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |
| 17 | Well , I er er I picked up I picked up er I picked up people in London , but , locally locally er I went er individually . |
| 18 | This goes to show that alliances formed in the conflict over recreation and access to the countryside are by no means the same as those which coalesce over issues of wildlife preservation and landscape change . |
| 19 | The vast majority were fitted with the more complex three-way converter , which cuts down emissions of carbon monoxide , nitrous oxides and hydrocarbons . |
| 20 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 21 | The privatization which handed over administration of benefit payments to employers was the brainchild of Sir Norman do I need to say more ? |
| 22 | Each week 800 council employees voluntarily contributed 50p from their wages of which 31p was paid to an insurance company which paid out £2,750 upon death . |
| 23 | Each week 800 council employees voluntarily contributed 50p from their wages of which 31p was paid to an insurance company which paid out £2,750 upon death . |
| 24 | GRE were founder members of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau , which monitors and arbitrates insurance matters , and members of both Lautro and the Association of British Insurers which set down codes of practice for all members to comply with . |
| 25 | How about , say , the needle-thin candiru fish , which swims up trails of urine and , when it gets to where it 's going , opens up like an umbrella … [ that 's enough candiru fish — Ed … ] |
| 26 | Investment trusts are regulated by the rules of the Companies Acts , which lay down requirements with respect to number of shareholders , form of financial accounts , constitutional structure , etc. and by the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange ( see above ) . |
| 27 | There were four stoves situated amidships ; great monsters which spat out showers of sparks . |
| 28 | Again , the staithes or private quays in the estuaries of many East Anglian villages were used to send hay or grain direct from the farm to London or the North in barges which brought back town-manure from London or coal from the North . |
| 29 | As striking for an impressionable child would have been the earth tremor on 27 March 829 which brought down houses in Aachen and damaged the roof of the palatine chapel . |
| 30 | In 1992 this White Paper was followed up by a consultation document from the Department of Trade and Industry , Abuse of Market Power , which sets out options for reform in the areas currently covered by the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 . |