Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case they inevitably begin to denigrate their opposite numbers for not doing ‘ real police work ’ . |
| 2 | The time has come for Britain to cut its military spending and begin to use its limited resources for our real needs . |
| 3 | She 's got some nice packets of sweets but people seem to bring her only magazines for ladies . |
| 4 | ‘ I keep giving myself little deadlines for when the transplant will happen , ’ she says . |
| 5 | We then start to use our voluntary muscles for support — something for which they were not designed . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’ |
| 7 | The marriage has broken down ; you 've got your legal grounds for divorce . |
| 8 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 9 | Well I think we 'll have , if the brakes have gone at least we 've recorded our last words for it |
| 10 | ‘ I do apologise if I 've upset your social plans for this evening , ’ he said with heavy sarcasm , ‘ but this is important to me , and it 's all in the line of business . |
| 11 | Australia have named their big guns for the Hong Kong Sevens , including World Cup-winning centre combination Tim Horan and Jason Little and three of their Italian-based players , David Campese , Michael Lynagh and Tim Gavin . |
| 12 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 13 | I have to give you top marks for determination . |
| 14 | Several organisations and individuals have proposed their own solutions for alleviating the social and environmental problems facing the UK uplands . |
| 15 | Some Kuwaitis , nervous about the health scare over cellular phones , have swapped their hand-held sets for car-installed phones , Abdulla al Sabej , managing director of Mobile Telephone Systems Co told Reuter in an interview ; 7% of Kuwaitis and 4% of the total population of 1.3m have cellular phones . |
| 16 | Visiting speakers from England have chided their Scottish colleagues for their slow pace of change , citing bed numbers in Scotland and the building of an entirely new psychiatric hospital in Aberdeen as examples of outmoded practice . |
| 17 | Lothian councillors have unveiled their revised plans for a system of so called Greenways to overcome |
| 18 | Individual MNPs with offices outside England and Wales have to make their own arrangements for appropriate insurance cover . |
| 19 | Partridge Fine Arts Plc have released their financial results for the year to 31 October 1992 . |