Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the death of their adopted parents leaves them free to make inquiries without giving them hurt . |
| 2 | Indeed if there is any validity in the argument that the narrow background and insularity of judges renders them unfitted to make decisions with significant broad social consequences , there is some merit in a system which limits their ability to change the law and reserves such questions for full consideration by a democratically elected legislature . |
| 3 | How the hell am I supposed to get heads and bodies for the Poles and the Bunker if I do n't kill things ? |
| 4 | So until we get a organised , you know it 's no good sort of encouraging em all to become members for them to ring in , only to get that stone wall , |
| 5 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 6 | I 'm looking for something somewhere Yes , well it appears to be working , but whether it 's working correctly I do n't know oh Ray , there is provision here for the headphones , you , you said are you supposed to use headphones with it , mind you it sounds pretty audible anyway , I do n't think you need headphones , I mean I 'm not sure there 's a |
| 7 | Are you supposed to have shoes here ? |
| 8 | Do you think your present situation will remain static or are you likely to have children and more children ( their friends ) , guests and more guests to feed in the ensuing years ? |
| 9 | Are you likely to get shingles ? |
| 10 | Are you able to sell ideas ? |
| 11 | Er you happy to leave things as they are for the minute ? |
| 12 | Are you happy to take groups in that direction four , four , four , four ? |
| 13 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 14 | What 's important is for you two to get matters straight between you — ’ |
| 15 | Put 10 cl of water and the same amount of white wine vinegar into a bowl or glass — along with three sprigs of rosemary , a sage leaf or two and three cloves of crushed garlic — and leave them all to exchange flavours for a few hours . |
| 16 | Head of Department : ‘ Do we ask them all to buy paints ? ’ |
| 17 | In giving his provisional ‘ No ’ , Mr Patten said : ‘ Only if Hampshire County Council and the districts address the issue of distribution ( of new houses ) together , and take account of opinion at the local level , are we likely to reach solutions which both meet the housing requirement and satisfy local environmental concerns . ’ |
| 18 | Are n't we lucky to have friends with such skills ! |
| 19 | Are we able to test claims , for example , about the way the state mediates between classes in a particular conjuncture ? |
| 20 | Not only are we desperate to acquire funds for new dressing room facilities but an unfortunate accident with the club van , by person(s) unknown , has removed the tea hut . |
| 21 | Perhaps we need to develop groups for ‘ failures ’ , for children born with or who develop conditions which make them unable to fit labels of normality . |
| 22 | They that to get things like . |
| 23 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 24 | Trotsky 's final expulsion from the Soviet Union had left him free to encourage groups of supporters elsewhere , though his main concern remained the policies of the Soviet state and Party . |
| 25 | Where they easy to keep hens ? |
| 26 | They rejoiced in the fervour of the Patarini , as the insurgents were called ; and they delighted to find allies in the war against simony and clerical marriage ( see p. 437 ) ; but they could not condone a consistent stand against the authority of the archbishop . |
| 27 | If they buy on credit are they likely to encounter difficulties in repaying the loan ? |
| 28 | So when Wulfstan 's texts mention secular affairs it should be remembered that they may not fully reflect the decisions of the meeting which heard them preached , nor are they likely to reveal aspects of royal administration of which churchmen disapproved . |
| 29 | Anyway , having experienced these things made him able to appreciate times like the present . |
| 30 | Nor did the reinforcement of Havelock Wilson 's powers in the new union , or his patrician and domineering style of running it , make allies out of the more independently minded of the local leadership , while his attempts at centralised financial control left him open to frequent accusations of mismanagement . |