Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my reverie had begun to include some delightful visions of how Sergia might make me welcome when I was interrupted . |
| 2 | A judge of status and quality ought not in my view to have agreed to conduct such an enquiry within the limitations of time and scope imposed by the prime Minister . |
| 3 | Its board had planned to do that yesterday but this had now been postponed — a move the SeaCo president regretted . |
| 4 | Foreign relief organizations and subsequent students of their work have tended to exaggerate this dichotomy with regard to the Famine , but internal Soviet sources lend credence to the view that the sudden withdrawal of many kinds of domestic relief was premature . |
| 5 | However such an important decision was not to be taken hastily , Kay who has been associated with the Society since its inception has agreed to fill this position on a temporary basis . |
| 6 | But the peaceful feeling which accompanies hypnosis and the constant reminders that she was relaxed and comfortable and everything was simply happening in her imagination had served to prevent any fear and anxiety at all . |
| 7 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 8 | Although she had responsibility for other areas , she considered that her appointment had begun to dissolve some of the negative feelings caused by the lack of a link person . |
| 9 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 10 | His rule had managed to alienate most of the traditional elites in both town and countryside , and few people were prepared to stir themselves on James 's behalf when the crisis came . |
| 11 | Since Wilder announced his candidacy in September 1991 , his campaign had failed to acquire any significant momentum . |
| 12 | Back at the rendezvous Stirling felt better after the usual tea laced with rum and was pleased that at last his team had managed to destroy some aircraft . |
| 13 | Tim had told the other kids , that it was all planned , his father had left to get another job . |
| 14 | After considerable dithering , he has pledged his life and his future to that belief , and now the validity of his belief has begun to appear more and more questionable . |
| 15 | His word has got to have that place of authority in our lives . |
| 16 | And I would suggest to you , it 's because it 's complicated , and forgive me if I have n't made it more simple , but that 's one reason incidentally , why in my document , I kept commissioning , the business of doing , and making the kind of hard choices that your committee 's had to make this morning , because resources will always be limited , separate from discussing everything that people would like to do , because they do n't always run together . |
| 17 | Given all the aforementioned , what has our group tried to do to combat this new legislation ? |
| 18 | If your ferret continues to fail to reappear another possibility must be considered — that someone else passing by has recovered it for you ! |
| 19 | She did n't want Madeira to rob her of vines and of sugar , and your father had tried to do that once . |
| 20 | Declan : your address does seem to give some people 's mailers big problems . |
| 21 | Suppose that our customer had decided to hold more building society deposits and fewer National Savings instruments . |
| 22 | I do n't see any way your school 's got to make this . |
| 23 | All as me mother 's got to do that day was the dinners . |