Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employees would prefer profits to be lower if maximising them involves plant closures or the introduction of job-destroying technology . |
| 2 | Okay , so what they did was they looked at what would be an attractive reinforcer in their work force erm , if if they were to persuade them to wear ear defenders , and they found out , from doing research in the work force , that consumer durables would be appropriate . |
| 3 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 4 | Rosie let me make currant men . |
| 5 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 6 | 1988 ) the government agreed in principle that officers ' terms of service should be altered to allow them to attend party group meetings , subject to procedural safeguards . |
| 7 | Others have hired government relations consultants to help them build communication links with the Government and Whitehall . |
| 8 | It quotes Dr Michelle Block , director of the Women versus Smoking Campaign , who is calling for a ‘ grassroots campaign by church groups ’ , urging them to galvanise public opinion . |
| 9 | Work experience for teachers will help them to plan work experience for students as an integrated part of the curriculum rather than an add-on to provide some relief for the teacher but of little advantage to the student and an inconvenience for business . |
| 10 | ‘ When you catch me eating cottage cheese straight from the fridge at three in the morning ! |
| 11 | Now this motion does not seem to understand government housing policy so let me explain government housing policy , I do n't agree with all of it but this , this is the policy bit . |
| 12 | If the Government are serious about promoting equal opportunities , I challenge them to reintroduce contract compliance , which they outlawed and which provides genuine incentives and practical advice to firms that wish to follow equal opportunities policies . |
| 13 | He offered some minor Major themes , stressing the role of small businesses , small savers , charities and football : all of them got tax breaks . |
| 14 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 15 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 16 | There are any number of sensible diets set out in paperbacks or reputable magazine supplements , many of them suggesting specimen meals for a week or a month . |
| 17 | In answer to Sophie 's question , she said , ‘ Ian says that when we 're married he wo n't let me treat farm animals . ’ |
| 18 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 19 | The more creative will experiment with less conventional architects if it will help them win planning permission . |
| 20 | The managers will wish to negotiate a salary which will allow them to meet interest payments on any borrowings to purchase their equity without reducing their standard of living . |
| 21 | ‘ Leon , to let me buy back Sleet . |
| 22 | Within this there are three particular concerns : the practical reasoning employed by ordinary policemen and women to help them accomplish routine duties ; how they interact with various sections of the public , from ethnic minorities to road users ; and how they perceive various aspects of police work , including the area within which they function and its people , what comprises ‘ real ’ police work , and what constitutes ‘ good ’ or competent practice . |
| 23 | But just watch them explore picture books and the bookseller breaks into a cold sweat . |
| 24 | I 've always loved those '60s pop songs with the massive bass sound and that really inspired me to write Metal Mickey 's really stomping beat in a childish way . |
| 25 | Eventually , a church member who was a nurse tabulated all the medical information , and helped me to write begging letters to pharmaceutical firms . |
| 26 | ‘ Lord , make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is … |
| 27 | On top of that , no other adviser had told Alan about the provision in the 1990 Social Security Act for schemes with sufficient surpluses to use them to increase member benefits . |
| 28 | The industry 's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests , but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall . |
| 29 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the nuns will live close by , enabling them to supervise building work the money for which has come from donations worldwide . |