Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 4 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 5 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 7 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 8 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 9 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 10 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 11 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 12 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 13 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 14 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 15 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 16 | And at me let fly with a ringing broadside . |
| 17 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 18 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 19 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 20 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 21 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 22 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 23 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 24 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 25 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 26 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 27 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 28 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 29 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 30 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |