Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must train staff to teach as effectively as possible and should encourage them to see this as an important part of their job . |
| 2 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 3 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 4 | One obvious alternative to the hamburger is a sandwich — try chopped chicken or tuna on wholewheat ; ask them to go easy on the mayo . |
| 5 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 6 | An dey fear both of dem , |
| 7 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 8 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 9 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 10 | The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn . |
| 11 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 12 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 13 | Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism . |
| 14 | This would then stimulate other institutions to change their rates too , in order for them to remain competitive with the clearing banks . |
| 15 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 16 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 17 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 18 | Oh , we all knew it was him with his stout legs and big arse , but everyone became involved in the pantomime . |
| 19 | With a closely guarded guest list of just eight — four of whom remain unidentified despite intense investigations — the marriage was being staged under the attentive gaze of their jailers . |
| 20 | You would n't catch me using one of them . |
| 21 | ‘ Why me ? ’ he asks Phil Schaffer , as the two of them sit late in Indian restaurants , eating blazing vindaloos after watching old Humphrey Bogart movies at cinemas beyond the railway sidings , on autumn nights when each sodium light has a yellow halo in the foggy air . |
| 22 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 23 | Anyway , whatever , it got pretty popular for a bit before everyone got bored with it and went back to staring out of the window and hiding Brian Smart ( and his accessories ) in the stock cupboard . |
| 24 | There were a few first ascents , climbed mainly before everyone got bored with the weather and sloped off abroad . |
| 25 | He asked me to go full-time with him , but I said I was committed to Frank . |
| 26 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 27 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've forced me to sit cross-legged for hours leaning against a wall with my fingertips . ’ |
| 29 | It was very hot that year and he liked me to sit naked on a chair in the courtyard garden while I read to him . ’ |
| 30 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |