Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The words were leading him the wrong way .
2 Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage .
3 We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months .
4 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
5 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
6 Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills .
7 I said things is bothering me a little bit .
8 While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user .
9 I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time .
10 Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’
11 to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing .
12 Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ?
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