Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 2 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 3 | The spirit of the Lord God is upon me Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good tidings to the afflicted ; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted , To proclaim liberty to the captives And the opening of prison to those who are bound ; To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favour … |
| 4 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 5 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 6 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 7 | Yes , we members have to abide by the current by-laws , but these have made me lose much confidence in the Society . |
| 8 | Asked for a safety deposit box after she 'd seen me cramming Belgian banknotes in an envelope . |
| 9 | I 've chosen you because I 've noticed you have better powers of concentration than either of my sisters . ’ |
| 10 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 11 | Mia has since said she found true happiness with Allen . |
| 12 | ‘ Tom McKeith and David Laing are good additions to the team and we 've always felt we had great strength in depth . |
| 13 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 14 | If they are selected they have 37 months of rigorous training ahead of them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 16 | Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances . |
| 17 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 18 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 19 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 20 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 21 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 22 | Because he had taught school before becoming a Fed he had some experience of kids . |
| 23 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 24 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 25 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 27 | There were accusations last night that doctors at the hospital should have realised she had classic symptoms of the disorder . |
| 28 | And nothing you have told me makes any difference to that . |
| 29 | I 've had I think more experience of what a rape in court than Sir Nicholas . |
| 30 | It was curiosity , when I was sixteen at school I was told I had another sister at the same school . |