Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did my best to make it a 12-pounder . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you afraid to read what the man who loves you says about you ? ’ |
| 3 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 4 | Bobby 'll be here in a minute , and I want you all to give him a performance that 'll blast him out of his seat ! ’ |
| 5 | it 's kind of you all to spare me the time . ’ |
| 6 | Are you able to give us an estimate of the time that elapsed between breaking the door in and being called away by your team leader ? |
| 7 | If ‘ highly sexed ’ means , ‘ Do men want it all the time , ie are you keen to have it every night ? ’ , |
| 8 | Are we supposed to call it the Lowfields as before or carry on using ‘ The New East Stand ’ ? |
| 9 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 10 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 11 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 12 | In the school library , time constraints make it impossible to do everything the school librarian would like to do in microcomputer applications . |
| 13 | Rhoda Brocklebank had a part too , although he found it hard to give it a name . |
| 14 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 15 | I find it hard to imagine what the end of the war must have meant . |
| 16 | And if it is , then its correlation with that belief of his wo n't depend on his wanting anything ( other than thistles ) and in particular not on his wanting to tell anyone the truth . |
| 17 | Even those who were prepared to join in found it difficult to understand what the camp was trying to achieve . |
| 18 | An election campaign in which the two principal parties find it difficult to believe what the opinion polls are telling them is a rum do . |