Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 2 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 3 | But schools often under-use the talents and energies of their teachers , or fail to develop them in any consistent and systematic way . |
| 4 | It is not pleasant to be shot at , and even the pleasure of being missed is spoilt by the mind 's habit of constructing alternative scenarios ; if the machine-gunner had been a bit quicker to react , or had led us with more skill , we would now be nothing but a heap of molten metal somewhere in the sea-grape . |
| 5 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 6 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 7 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 8 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 9 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 10 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 11 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 12 | via satellite and telecommunication links , sophisticated means of communication for a vast range of purposes including the control of spacecraft , weather forecasting and news transmission , and has provided us with vast and easily accessible data banks . |
| 13 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 14 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 15 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 16 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 17 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 18 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 19 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 20 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 21 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 22 | Seven student teachers will be taking their examinations on 21st and 28th March — we wish them luck and hope to see them at next Q.T. Day . |
| 23 | Valley Canoe Products have located a source of indestructible deck elastics and hope to offer them in 6 and 8mm sizes . |
| 24 | The company is already using Concurrent Object-Oriented C in-house , and plans to offer it to public and private research centres and universities across Japan by September . |
| 25 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 26 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 27 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 28 | I wonder whether you could define the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the Government to introduce a law reform Bill and seek to push it through all its procedures in a day without it going to a Standing Committee to be considered carefully as to its detail , when it happens that there is no particular circumstance of urgency and when the reform concerned could lead to considerable difficulties for the courts if the measure is not fully considered ? |
| 29 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |
| 30 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |