Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 No you can wait until you can see her going out with wait until the car 's not there if you know what car she 's driving these days .
2 Yes , income , that 's right , incomes have risen , er , and as a result we 're consuming more goods , consuming more goods it , it followed , well not automatically , but there 's a likelihood that trade will also , will also rise .
3 Whenever we say a system has ‘ adopted ’ a new curricular practice we are making all sorts of value judgements .
4 May I ask in whose honour you were playing those pipes ? ’
5 A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ .
6 John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz .
7 ‘ Well , I have a degree , but I have no idea what career I want , if any , and for the moment I 'm taking undemanding jobs and writing poetry . ’
8 In the guards ' room I was shown two videos .
9 By looking at these developing years and investigating the transformations which take place you are entering new territories which begin to examine in earnest the role of the media and the effects stereotyping which influences us all .
10 At one venue we were having two conferences three months apart .
11 Because Landsat MSS and TM images are numerical in nature they are called digital images .
12 Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly .
13 Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact .
14 He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic .
15 So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public .
16 The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents .
17 The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success .
18 Nearly every match he is making excellent saves and earning scum points .
19 At fif sixty , thank you , standing , for sixty , sixty five seventy pounds , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety standing I 'm offered ninety pounds at the back standing , at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , you all finished , at ninety pounds .
20 Seventy , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety at the back I 'm offered ninety pounds , I shall sell at ninety , it 's yours sir at ninety pounds ninety pounds , gentleman left back and that 's for eight five three .
21 And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir .
22 If , however , like Bilinda from My Bloody Valentine you 're singing tender entreaties to your partner or questioning the nature of love , then you 're saying something universal and good .
23 I much prefer the stuff they are doing these days . ’
24 Like other Vietnamese of his day he was given two names ; his first , ‘ sacred ’ name bestowed at birth was Nguyen Van Coong ( modification of Cung and meaning ‘ respectful ’ ) .
25 Maximilian was to marry twice , and by his second wife he was to have ten children .
26 Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring !
27 For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading .
28 Every time I took a big breath I were getting short pains all down this side ?
29 In this role you are smoothing ruffled feathers , drawing forth other people 's skills and creative abilities and , at its most basic , helping people to enjoy themselves .
30 And this morning we 're presenting two activists with the gold badge the women and the men 's and during the course of the week , we 'll be presenting the youth award to one of our young members .
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