Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [coord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some horses are naturally more sensitive than others and the rider 's weight causes them to hollow and stiffen . |
| 2 | The seal saw them shimmer and melt away until one day the penguin said to her : |
| 3 | I half had it in mind to invite you to come and work for me here in Vienna . |
| 4 | The Sheriff of Cornwall chanced to be in the town and he and the Mayor persuaded them to disperse and go home . |
| 5 | Quality Assurer privilege allows you to grant or deny approval to packages using option 1.5.3 . |
| 6 | Quality Assurer privilege allows you to grant or deny approval to packages using option 1.5.3 . |
| 7 | I mimicked his slow accent , and the mimicry made him turn and stare at me , and the look on his face instantly made me regret my mimicry . |
| 8 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 9 | Friends raise funds for Mark THE family and friends of autistic five-year-old Mark Mason have raised £1,400 to buy special computer equipment to help him communicate and make better progress at the special school he attends in York . |
| 10 | A sound financial department and her strong sense of accountability enabled her to understand and monitor the financial side . |
| 11 | What sort of work did you try and get when you came ? |
| 12 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 13 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |
| 14 | These later towns might then have been either assisted in their development by their royal or ecclesiastical lords or owners , or actually given a regular street pattern and/or a market place to encourage them to grow and expand . |
| 15 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 16 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now throw off the veto of his Minister of State and have the courage to meet us to argue and discuss the case ? |
| 17 | Do you keep some record of God 's goodness to help you commemorate and celebrate ? |
| 18 | You will also need a strong crowbar to help you lift and overturn large boulders . |
| 19 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 20 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 21 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 22 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 23 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 24 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 25 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 26 | Now , just one year later , she was 44455 Wren McKeown , V. T. ’ a steward who would spend the remainder of the war cleaning and polishing whatever the Navy told her to clean and polish . |
| 27 | The rustling of packaging caused him to sigh and ask the computer to turn up the sound . |
| 28 | If the result is unsatisfactory it can be used as a motivating factor to persuade them to try and make an improvement . |
| 29 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 30 | If the character enabled them to survive or breed more readily , then the long-term consequence is that the character will generally bear some relation to the conditions in which it worked . |