Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This protected what Lord Bridge called the safeguards built into the judicial review procedure which protected from ‘ harassment ’ public authorities on whom Parliament imposed a duty . |
| 2 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 3 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 4 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 5 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 6 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 7 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 8 | In them Hooker discusses the Presbyterian system of government by church elders , the status of bishops , and the relationship between Church and State . |
| 9 | It also gives me pleasure to rehearse a story clearly that I have thought about . |
| 10 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 11 | My guitar has an undersaddle Ashworth transducer . |
| 12 | I know you 're going , my heart fears the worst … |
| 13 | Almost an hour passed with my heart thumping every time the door of number four opened . |
| 14 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 15 | My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back . |
| 16 | ‘ Call me … call me , Mr Kawasaki , ’ I said , and , like my old generator , my heart skipped a bound . |
| 17 | I felt my stomach lurch and my heart beat a little faster . |
| 18 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 19 | My heart gave a quick double thump … so that was It . |
| 20 | Now my heart performed a little jig , impromptu . |
| 21 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 22 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 23 | My heart missed a beat … ’ |
| 24 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 25 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 26 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 27 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 28 | Q I 've been having my hair permed every four months for the past three years . |
| 29 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 30 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |