Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 2 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 3 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 4 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 5 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 6 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 7 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 8 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 9 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 10 | Durham County may stand on the threshold of a magnificent new era but it is difficult to imagine them matching that sort of fixture . |
| 11 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 12 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 13 | Shall I make another pot of tea . |
| 14 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 15 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 16 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 17 | For the more experienced I commend Still Life in Oils by Paul Millichip ( John Hemson Associates ) and the various demonstration films by Harley Crossley on palette knife techniques ( Rainbow Art Images ) . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that modern history grows old within a week , I commend that book to people who want to understand what is happening in that part of the world . |
| 19 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 20 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 21 | ‘ I made this arrangement with Señor Parnham . |
| 22 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 23 | I mean that problem with leads is actually hopeless . |
| 24 | Ha well if he ca n't do , if he ca n't bring nothing that man , which I 'm sure he will I shall go and buy something , I mean that thing of Scott 's wo n't be any good without the appropriate thing will it ? |
| 25 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
| 26 | I mean that sort of thing does n't help it right . |
| 27 | There is reason , I mean that sort of thing |
| 28 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 29 | Er I mean Standard Life for instance tied with the Halifax , G A with the Derbyshire , erm endless societies have tied . |
| 30 | I mean Northern Echo at Darlington , Bradford , York , Kendal , they 're all very profitable businesses er , and so they 're , but they have n't had any increase in sits , in sits vac . |