Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 32 | Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it . |
| 33 | The same principle can be drawn from all of them and help the troubled find meaning and purpose in their lives . |
| 34 | The discounts can be 13 per cent or more , a good return for whoever buys them and recovers the full face value a year later from the issuing bank . |
| 35 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 36 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 37 | The Hearthwares and Myrcans were greeted with friendliness and something like relief by the people they came upon — merchants in covered carts , farmers with flocks and herds , women bent under loads of firewood or water , children trailing behind them and eyeing the armoured figures on the big horses in wonder . |
| 38 | The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect . |
| 39 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 40 | First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report . |
| 41 | When they stepped out on to the track some twenty paces from him he only turned his head slowly to glance at them and made no other movement . |
| 42 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |
| 43 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 44 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 45 | In fact any intervention with the playing of the game will distort prices , reduce the information contained in them and prevent the full adjustment which is a part and parcel of the creation of wealth in a market economy . |
| 46 | To keep them clean , simply wash them and use a good copper polish . |
| 47 | He cut the last of them and followed the red thread back to its source . |
| 48 | Although such findings are not in dispute , and of course are rarely undertaken in areas where public antagonism to the institution is known to run high , there is continual pressure to replicate them and repeat the consoling message . |
| 49 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
| 50 | You just point to them and click the right mouse button . |
| 51 | If they say black cards you say ‘ Good , so I will keep them and take the red cards away ’ . |
| 52 | ‘ I can then get some sketches , build on them and get a true picture of what happened . |
| 53 | Very difficult to avoid them and pay the full price for anything . |
| 54 | He knew thanks were required but the effort of offering them and making a satisfactory excuse seemed altogether too much . |
| 55 | The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood . |
| 56 | Some birds certainly use their eyes to follow the geographical features they see below them and have a mental map by which they steer . |
| 57 | Nothing is more nourishing to doubt than hazy mists of vagueness ; but clear thinking disperses them and leaves a clear-cut choice either to believe or to disbelieve . |
| 58 | ‘ You are very much mistaken , ’ he muttered , looking beyond them and keeping a close eye on his sister and Mitch as they rode along laughing and talking . |
| 59 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 60 | We 've got Oxford United away in the 4th round so hopefully we 'll get past them and establish a good cup run — who knows if we win the FA cup I may even relent in my criticsim of Sgt Wilko . |