Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 2 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 3 | I am hoping to do fun rides and shows this summer . |
| 4 | ‘ I am determined to promote political reforms . ’ |
| 5 | I am beginning to organise artistic events for all kinds to raise funds for the RSPCA and to promote animal welfare and wildlife conservation issues . |
| 6 | All four I am referring to have replaceable batteries — an improvement on earlier models . |
| 7 | Further to the letters in Readers Forum ( April and August 1992 editions ) regarding pencil holders I am writing to let other readers know that these are available from Lyra ( UK ) Ltd. at the cost of £1.80 each plus VAT . |
| 8 | Editor , — I am writing to correct factual inaccuracies in the letter from Patrick Magennis and Anne Begley concerning the difficulty in providing nicotine substitutes in hospital . |
| 9 | Of course , that job had to be done professionally — by a local man , because I am trying to use local contractors wherever possible . |
| 10 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 11 | I am going to make moral judgments . |
| 12 | By this time I am starting to use other grades of pencil , from 6H to HB . |
| 13 | By this time I am starting to use other grades of pencil , from 6H to HB . |
| 14 | I 'm keen on the scabious family and I 'm trying to grow old wallflowers , but they are very difficult and susceptible to virus . |
| 15 | Nicholas said , ‘ I 'm not sitting fainting with horror : I 'm trying to make God-damned plans . |
| 16 | I 'm trying to find new ways of interpreting the symbol itself so that it 's not as polarised . |
| 17 | So , I 'm going to leave fresh instructions |
| 18 | Management has decided that workers are still not ready to be pushed too far towards Japanese-style working methods , or as one assembly worker at Dagenham put it : ‘ If they think I 'm going to do physical jerks and sing the company song before I start my shift , they 've got another think coming . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to make huge sacrifices for you , forget it , Christina . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm realistic enough to know I 'm going to have good days and bad ones . |
| 21 | When I get older I 'm going to have gold teeth like Peter — I reckon they look real good . |
| 22 | I was invited to observe healing sessions taking place in the College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington . |
| 23 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 24 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 25 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 26 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 27 | I was starting to make close friendships , express more anger — in fact I did n't feel empty at all but full , full of plans and ideas and feelings and senses . |
| 28 | I was going to make baked beans for tomorrow lunch . ’ |
| 29 | So , with some limitations , I was allowed to choose new Directors whose short training films I 'd seen , or who 'd maybe done a couple of other jobs in serials , and get them to prove their mettle . |
| 30 | I was allowed to wear high heels for beauty contests , however , and when I started work , he always bought me expensive Italian leather . |