Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 2 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 3 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 4 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 5 | Your wife should contact your tax office , or call at the nearest local office , and ask them to arrange to open a set of records for her . |
| 6 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 7 | Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle . |
| 8 | The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE ) announced on Nov. 13 that the parties of the eight remaining candidates , all of whom failed to secure a required minimum of 4 per cent of the votes , would lose their legal status . |
| 9 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 10 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 11 | Er does everyone want to do a general essay or do people want to do a s a specific thing ? |
| 12 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 13 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 14 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 15 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 16 | The proposals were rejected , however , by the rebel groups currently controlling substantial areas of the country [ see pp. 37239-40 for military setbacks for Mengistu 's forces in February ] , on the grounds that they contained nothing designed to promote a peace settlement , but rather sought to bolster the regime 's capacity to fight the war . |
| 17 | The passage will remind some readers of Chomsky 's palmier days , in linguistics rather than AI , when he would begin arguments with ‘ Obviously , everyone has internalized a grammar … ’ |
| 18 | If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ? |
| 19 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 20 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 21 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 23 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 24 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 25 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 26 | Well I 'll be , I 'm not going to go into it , that 's a close on itself , just like the first one that I , everyone has got a sequence |
| 27 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 28 | And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ? |
| 29 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 30 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |