Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 2 | On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair . |
| 3 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 4 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 5 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 6 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 7 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 8 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 9 | To guarantee a good intake of fibrè eat plenty of pulses and vegetables . |
| 10 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 11 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 12 | A struggle to realize what in some sense already exists . |
| 13 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 14 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 15 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 16 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 17 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 18 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 19 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 20 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 21 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 22 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 23 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 24 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 25 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 26 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 27 | And I do not give you permission to fling yourself at her feet , grab her hands and weep into her palms . |
| 28 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 29 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 30 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |