Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My kids have got a paddock , where they play . |
| 2 | My parents had rented a cottage on a farm at Backakeldy , ten miles south from Kirkwall overlooking the sea on the eastern shores of Scapa Flow . |
| 3 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 4 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 5 | And Bassett , indignant that Wednesday manager Trevor Francis had appealed before the match for good behaviour by both sides , said : ‘ I wonder what would have happened if one of my players had committed a foul like that . ’ |
| 6 | My tears have washed a lot of the make-up from that eye and there 's a black streak running down my cheek . |
| 7 | So far my enquiries have drawn a blank , your tracks are so well covered . |
| 8 | It just gets on my nerves having to buy a pint like |
| 9 | Bernard grew up at 8 Waterloo Road , London , a household kept by his father , containing , in his words , ‘ vague and violent people together , to whom parents had consigned a son who would have encumbered their travels ’ . |
| 10 | She hesitated and her fingers began pleating a paper serviette that lay on the table ; then , glancing briefly at Rachel and taking a deep breath , she continued , ‘ But I was heartbroken over something else as well , and it was n't David . |
| 11 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 12 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 13 | Her words seemed to break a spell . |
| 14 | She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning , and a mind seems to be going to waste . |
| 15 | On 26 October the queen and her supporters had issued a proclamation at Bristol declaring that since the king had deserted the realm , presumably by fleeing to Glamorgan , Prince Edward was to be Reeper of the Realm , and the prince issued writs in his father 's name summoning parliament for 15 December . |
| 16 | The way her heart seemed to squeeze inside her chest , the way her pulses seemed to skip a beat whenever Roman watched her like that , was deeply disturbing . |
| 17 | Each day her youngsters have to reserve a seat at the table and no prior reservation means no meal . |
| 18 | Twice before it had stopped , allowing them to get close , only to move away again as their senses had reached a fever pitch of readiness . |
| 19 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 20 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the arrival of the new Hurricanes and their pilots had allowed a number of the old ‘ workhorses ’ to be relieved . |
| 22 | Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply . |
| 23 | At first the civilian foremen who came to the Factory each morning from Barashevo village had shouted that the men should stay at their work , but their protests had made a battle that he could not win . |
| 24 | Enraged by the wine bar 's policy of forbidding them to stand with their male colleagues to drink at the bar , Hall and her cohorts decided to stage a protest . |
| 25 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 26 | Their pursuers had lit a lantern , the better to see their way , and now two shadowy figures were silhouetted in the alley mouth . |
| 27 | Unheeding , the Welshman went on , ‘ How are their wives expected to feed a family on a lump of cheese not big enough for a mouse , and a handful of peas that would n't satisfy a guinea-pig ? |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , different viewpoints have emerged over the range of activities which can be justified under the name of academic freedom , over the kinds of threat which are most felt to be present , over the circumstances in which appeal can be made to academic freedom , and over the justifications which academics employ to claim a right to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 29 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 30 | Some of their instructions included reading a spell-book in my witch 's house , which had , we established , a door close to where the children were sitting . |