Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] and [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , even though it was just after 3am on Friday morning , Len was there to meet me and the first hurdle was over , I had arrived . |
| 2 | Pigeons are derived from the Rock Dove and which nested and perched in cliff side and buildings are the nearest thing so I the pigeons are n't really an argument and you do if you want proper birds in the city centre such as thrushes and blackbirds and even sparrows you need real trees to encourage them and the these trees are fairly mature and helpful . |
| 3 | Next is the fact that the more dots you have the longer it 's going to take to process them and the more memory you 'll need to hold the bitmap . |
| 4 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 5 | He went to answer it and the next thing he knew he was being attacked by a group of men . |
| 6 | Carrie went to open it and an American soldier stood there . |
| 7 | I want to help him and the only way I can do that is try and find out who really killed her . |
| 8 | Ray took the opportunity to put his arm about his wife , and to shepherd her and the panting Harrison to the door . |
| 9 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 10 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 11 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 12 | It did , I tried to save it and the damn thing came off , you know the the |
| 13 | There it rests today with all its wartime equipment on display , and every year thousands of visitors come to see it and the twenty-minute film that was made of its capture . |
| 14 | More police arrived to assist him and the arrested person was taken to Chelmsford police station . |
| 15 | The director needs freedom to offer it and the other person freedom to receive it , and this very much depends on the trustful quality of the relationship already built . |
| 16 | If you are taking water tablets ( diuretics ) check the best time to take them and the correct dose with your doctor . |
| 17 | In Liverpool from late December 1888 the waterfront was seething with discontent , three major strikes took place , permanent unions emerged , the employers combined to oppose them and the traditional relationships between employers and employees were lastingly shattered " . |
| 18 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 19 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 20 | William saw the man lean back , one shoulder dropping slightly , then there was a flash of light which seemed to blind him and a searing pain . |
| 21 | The solvent is then warmed to melt it and a known mass of solute is added . |
| 22 | It begins to look as if what is exhausting is not the amount of work per se , but the lack of clear values to underpin it and the consequent lack of regular enjoyment and true satisfaction that arise from it . |