Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 2 | For these reasons I prefer to use the phrase ‘ rules for changing the rules ’ ( Bateson , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 4 | Lecturers I spoke to saw the course as chiefly concerned with the development of critical skills combined with promoting an understanding of the vocational areas on which communications has a bearing : |
| 5 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 6 | Over the years with the help of several experts I 've learnt the secrets of the make-up artists : how to highlight the areas of the face that are assets and how to cover the less flattering features ! |
| 7 | For these meetings I had to hoover the room , light the incense , greet the guests like a head waiter and serve them Indian sweets . |
| 8 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 9 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 10 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 11 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 12 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 13 | By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name . |
| 14 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
| 15 | In recent months I have had the opportunity to go to Kashmir by arrangement with both the Pakistani Government and the Indian Government , and I have seen the profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions — Hindu and Muslim . |
| 16 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |
| 17 | AS CAMRA 's Brewery Liaison Officer for Newcastle Breweries I have followed the discussions in these columns concerning the origin of Theakston 's beers with interest . |
| 18 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 19 | ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’ |
| 20 | And so in about three weeks I began to speak the language of Lilliput . |
| 21 | After another wait of a couple of weeks I decided to add the Neon Tetras . |
| 22 | I erm have n't done a survey of this , but from my experience of meeting people in different universities I do get the impression that there tends to be many people of a religious persuasion , whereas in the sciences of the very small , biology and so on , there is not . |
| 23 | There is a shortage at the moment of food and medicines , er a lot could be done by governments I think to help the Jordanians in that , at the same time perhaps wealthier governments could help poorer governments bring their people home . |
| 24 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 25 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |
| 26 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 27 | Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand , with each new undergraduate intake , and have had to alter my terminology to suit . |
| 28 | During those twenty years I have told the story to only one other person . |
| 29 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 30 | For analytical purposes I have shown the chord tones under the music notation and the possible scale/chord sources under the tab . |