Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Q : In that case I imagine people will flee Darcy 's Utopia in droves .
2 I was only going to say Chairman I wish people would n't band the figures around the council chamber which nobody has seen before therefore ca n't assess .
3 I said to mum I said works out that I get it
4 ‘ Of course I have staff , but they 'll be busy with sheep or cattle work , or attending to deer . ’
5 Once you 've met a really brilliant mind you realise people like us are small fry .
6 Erm and on this side we send people out for two days before they come in to training so they are at least familiar with what what we do .
7 At each stage of the research we interviewed people all over Scotland asking them to tell us three things :
8 Looking at the event dispassionately , I realise that I was probably chosen because the film had to be ‘ in the can ’ ( a technical term we film people use for ‘ finished ’ ) by the end of February .
9 When he plays C on his A instrument it sounds A. Hence the part for a B ♭ clarinet is written a tone higher than the key of the piece , and that for an A clarinet a minor 3rd higher .
10 It overlooks the fact that people with impairments have different needs from people without impairments , and the uniformity it introduces means that the specific needs and characteristics of individuals often go unrecognised .
11 I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project .
12 ‘ No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said .
13 , Stephen ( d. 1780 ) , architect , may have been born in Oxburgh , Norfolk , to the poor of which village he left £20 in his will , and he appears to have begun his professional life as a clerk or assistant to William Kent [ q.v . ] .
14 When papa 's away he paints ladies , at home he paints fish , stinking fish , rascasse , red mullet , sea spider , octopus , at night it goes into the icebox , table and all , it stinks all the same .
15 At this level you need people like Mick playing at their best — and he has known times when that has unfortunately not been the case .
16 The pronouncement of big statements is anathema to Juliana because she feels her point of view changes from time to time and she 's afraid of saying too much in case she alienates people , but she does admit to finding life in America ‘ scary ’ at the moment .
17 There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ .
18 There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ .
19 We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . "
20 I suppose I could if I could pull the machine out and were , were the pipe goes over into the waste I mean people do that in the Isle of Wight are n't they , were they 've got to , need
21 Well an an an and I , it seems to me that the , the er I mean you go , you go to the er to the M S Society and you find just about everybody there , you know , you find people who , who are in wheelchairs , you find people who are walking around , you find people who are er controlling their diet you find people who are obs s taking extreme dietary precautions , no , not precautions , no they are taking extreme care of their diet , er er I mean on gluten-free diets and you know what that means
22 If initially you 've got em , empathy with the P A whe Y E market , and you 've got the products , you 're going along quite happily , and then all of a sudden you hear people in the banks talking about the business market , and you go , ooh , I 'll have some of that .
23 And prices would almost certainly rise : at the moment we charge 2p to 3p less than national brewers , including Anglo-Welsh !
24 the moment we get staff I said yeah
25 Erm , I do understand that er , you know , we 've got another report coming to us tomorrow on it , and there may be some additions on it disabled people hopefully about getting more people to , disabled people to That that 's another aim we help people
26 It is ushering a bill through the Diet ( parliament ) that would give shareholders with 3% or more of a company the right to inspect its management accounts ; at the moment they need 10% .
27 There were inscriptions half buffed from the surface , but you could n't see what shrine they came from. ,
28 During the civil war he cast cannon for the king , Prince Rupert staying with him for three days in October 1642 .
29 As a beneficiary of this body it received £140,000 this financial year .
30 Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) .
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