Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 2 | In a serialised version of the book under a headline : ‘ Venables never made Spurs his top priority ’ , Scholar alleged : ‘ Tottenham , alas , never seemed to get his full attention . ’ |
| 3 | The easy atmosphere and lively evenings make Paxos our recommended dinghy holiday for those who enjoy a really active social life ; it 's ideal for people by themselves . |
| 4 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 5 | Announcing his new Cabinet on Nov. 5 , Miyazawa made Watanabe his Foreign Minister , and gave posts to members of the Mitsuzuka faction , although not to Mitsuzuka himself . |
| 6 | Some of the apparatus is made by Philips and Westinghouse , some by manufacturers he has never heard o It all looks slightly unfamiliar . |
| 7 | Technology and passion unite to promote values which most clubgoers would cross the universe to avoid . |
| 8 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 9 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 10 | She bought him Two so we was gon na lend Bobby our Three so he said well I wo n't look at Two . |
| 11 | After the war Birkenhead made biography his main occupation despite a major set-back . |
| 12 | The LOB corpus employs ditto tags to indicate words whose syntactic roles differ from the role of the same words in other contexts . |
| 13 | Send Andy your own compilation tapes including , if you wish , selected tracks by Country Joe And The Fish , Edwin Starr , Billy Bragg , Elvis Costello , John Lennon , Soho , The Farm , Robert Wyatt , Metallica and our Lisa . |
| 14 | Now , has Dora everything ready ? ’ |
| 15 | Do this until you have all uniform lists , that is , until each list contains words which all contain the same sound in the same place . |
| 16 | So , the appeal to visitors from Texas or Tokyo is ‘ send Stratford your old lamp posts to complete the set ’ . |
| 17 | Set B has elements which all also belong in set A. |
| 18 | It was designed to invite visitors to step inside and explore buildings whose distinguished , colourful or unusual interior are rarely open to the public . |
| 19 | ‘ Like to come wiv me next week ? ’ offered Rose , the bus slowly bringing them nearer home with each plodding step . |
| 20 | I 'd liked to find Mary something nice and pretty for Christmas , I do n't know what to get . |
| 21 | Lydersen again had a hand in Arsenal 's second goal in the 46th minute when his long clearance found Campbell whose awesome power took him into the box to beat Norwich 's former Tottenham goalkeeper Walton at the near post . |
| 22 | ‘ As in ‘ this programme contains scenes which some viewers may find distressing or objectionable ’ . ’ |
| 23 | And to make the point even more strongly , Lend-Lease was ended at Congressional insistence in August 1945 before the war with Japan was over ; and the Truman Administration was only allowed to grant Britain her first post-war loan on the most ungenerous terms . |
| 24 | I forgive lepidopterists their sharp-eyed zeal . |
| 25 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |
| 26 | ‘ Contains language which some viewers may find offensive ’ says the announcer . |
| 27 | Robbie was surprised and relieved to find Fen his usual phlegmatic self next morning . |
| 28 | Before his release from Reading gaol , Wilde appointed Ross his literary executor ; but with Wilde 's estate bankrupt , it was not until 1905 that Ross was able to pay Wilde 's creditors and annul the bankruptcy . |
| 29 | Farmers will be compelled to preserve hedgerows which local authorities believe to be of landscape , conservation or historical value . |
| 30 | Having it in their hands never made money their own . |