Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What upset me was hearing the door locked . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect I 'm making a mountain — you know — but it was on my way home from school . |
| 3 | ‘ I realise I 'm taking a chance , but I believe the people of Northern Ireland are now ready for this , ’ said Mr Sherwani . |
| 4 | ‘ Never forget you are leaving the continent of dreams for the land of memory . |
| 5 | Maybe it helps to generate the sense of ‘ direct engagement ’ in your work that comes when you forget you are using a computer at all . |
| 6 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 7 | But the police say you are breaking the law in doing this . |
| 8 | Remember the successes , remember the positive improvements ( even look back to six months ago and find it difficult to believe how much better you are meeting the challenge of hearing loss ) and then tell yourself , quite truthfully , that you are growing every day in con |
| 9 | I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way . |
| 10 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 11 | And they say they 're lobbying the government for more cash to build new premises . |
| 12 | Police say they 're determined the catch the latest attacker . |
| 13 | The company that sent in the bailiffs , Bristow and Sutor , say they 're conducting an enquiry ; Mr Hoad 's arm was broken when he tried to prevent the bailiffs taking away a car . |
| 14 | Plum growers say they 're expecting a bumper harvest this year . |
| 15 | Small businesses which have been losing trade to a new supermarket say they 're dreading the opening of a second one nearby , this autumn . |
| 16 | Trading standards officers say they 're losing the battle against computer game pirates who cost the industry twenty million pounds a year . |
| 17 | Trading standards officers say they 're losing the battle against computer game pirates who cost the industry twenty million pounds a year . |
| 18 | British Gas say they 're investigating the possibility that a fire had been left on , and unlit , all night . |
| 19 | Detective say they 're treating the death as suspicious . |
| 20 | Halcrows say they are stabilising the soil by pinning down the hillsides . |
| 21 | Oracle Corp and Ingres say they are supporting the product . |
| 22 | They are a mixed workforce , recruited from local Catholics and Protestants who live in the community , and they say they are afforded no protection whatsoever by the security forces . |
| 23 | The RUC say they are investigating a number of complaints . |
| 24 | Connecticut police say they are investigating a complaint . |
| 25 | The three say they were issued the cash by a bank and did n't know it was phoney . |
| 26 | How he knew from which coach to retrieve her is a puzzle ; I expect he was telling a tale , but even this made him a very disagreeable character . |
| 27 | Say it 's to drain the West Bog . " |
| 28 | People living in a picturesque village say it 's become a rat run for lorries trying to avoid crossing the Severn Bridge . |
| 29 | Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme . |
| 30 | Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme . |