Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 2 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 3 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 4 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 5 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 6 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 7 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 8 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 9 | McDunn finally offers me a cigarette . |
| 10 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | ‘ I was looking for new challenges , and Cassell as a large independent commercial publisher offers me the scope to publish a wide range of books in a commercial environment . ’ |
| 12 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 13 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 14 | Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it |
| 15 | ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’ |
| 16 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 17 | I scrounged that off Tom McAskill who owes me a favour ’ |
| 18 | I 've arranged with a friend who owes me a favour that I 'll supply the supervisor for medical equipment being flown to Bucharest . |
| 19 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 20 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 21 | England is mine , It owes me a living ’ . |
| 22 | That 's alright , I 'll let you drive me all the way round once so , he owes me a quid you see . |
| 23 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 24 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 25 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 26 | no , no it 's , it 's the people that think the world owes them a living , but they do n't want to give anything back and that really bugs me . |
| 27 | One owes them the duty to uphold and support them . |
| 28 | But as she needs me a hell of a lot more than I need her , we get along . ’ |
| 29 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 30 | Courier had never beaten the German in five previous meetings , never looked like doing so yesterday and said : ‘ He just beats me every time we play . |