Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not usually considered to be an important tone for foreign learners to acquire , though it is still useful practice to learn to distinguish it from other tones . |
| 2 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 3 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 4 | Within the next few months — and long before the next election — they will have to settle these questions or see the spectre of the Winter of Discontent raised to haunt them by gleeful Conservative politicians . |
| 5 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 6 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 7 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 8 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 9 | It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order . |
| 10 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 11 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 12 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 13 | Director Tony Downes says that IBM has published details in the past , for example for Physical Unit 2.1 , and while these prove a useful guide , he says , there is a good deal of interpretation needed to turn them into usable products . |
| 14 | Network Appliance expects to push it through value-added resellers , systems integrators and distributors in the US and through OEM customers and distributors in the Far East and in Europe . |
| 15 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |
| 16 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 17 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 18 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 19 | Has some moron tried to strengthen them with yellowing tape ? |
| 20 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 21 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 22 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 23 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 24 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 25 | The client does not know what to expect and it is your responsibility to ensure that he or she does not waste time trying to contact you at inappropriate times . |