Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want to look at the toys while I go in here ? ’ |
| 2 | Last night Le Saux said : ‘ I want to apologise to the fans because I obviously regret what I did . |
| 3 | I stop staring at the dancers as a French girl approaches . |
| 4 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 5 | This is partly because they fear women in such positions simply get incorporated into the structures as they exist , and merely reproduce the same decisions as the dominant male group . |
| 6 | ‘ I like to think of the shelves as being traditional : eye-catching with items on display in glass cases . |
| 7 | He says that they try to deal with the complaints as they come in , but getting enough evidence for an arrest takes time . |
| 8 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 9 | Oh yes , I do go to the races as well . |
| 10 | To avoid confusion of terms , I prefer to refer to the activities as either projected or ‘ non-projected ’ . |
| 11 | I 've lived on the streets since I was a child , cold , hungry , among people who are always drunk and fighting . |
| 12 | ‘ We need to see to the horses if they are to bear us any farther . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems I have to fall down the stairs before you 'll deign to visit me , ’ she declared in an aggrieved tone that held a touch of vinegar . |
| 14 | It did , however , illustrate how people in Britain often have good ideas for inventions but then have to sit on the sidelines as no one is prepared to back them . |
| 15 | That has been the cornerstone of the TA concept , and many people have protested about the changes because activities in and around the TA and the drill hall created a culture of its own , certainly in many working class communities . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , neither of you have to participate in the conjurations if you do n't want to . |
| 17 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 18 | Thirty years , more or less , have gone by the boards since a ragtag group of artists converged on a spot in lower Manhattan called Coenties Slip . |
| 19 | Social class inequalities of tenure have widened over the years if the comparison is made between the unskilled and the professional groups . |
| 20 | You really have to get to the circles before the coaches arrive and mess things up . ’ |
| 21 | My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors . |