Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A straightforward man ( Ed O'Neill ) agrees to drive his girlfriend 's son home from boarding school for Thanksgiving . |
| 2 | Doth earn their money by taking of hard pains . ’ |
| 3 | Trevor goes to see his sister about once a month . |
| 4 | So he goes to see his mother who 's a nurse at the |
| 5 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 6 | Are the Government prepared to exercise their right , as the holders of that share , to ensure that British Steel agrees to implement its promise that it would either stay at Ravenscraig or sell the plant to somebody else ? |
| 7 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 8 | Aldercine Hodson , who has long felt that Medau 's possibilities were under-exploited and that it could be developed , for instance , as a valuable coaching-aid in sport , tells the following story , which she thinks illustrates her point and makes Medau News . |
| 9 | CAPILLARY REFILL TEST : This involves pressing your thumb onto the horse 's gum . |
| 10 | ‘ No , no , thanks , Drew , ’ he says as Andy goes to refill his dram too . |
| 11 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ We are always looking for more employers to become involved and anyone who wants to support our work is welcome to get in touch . ’ |
| 13 | It had the dubious merit of illustrating the spirit which has pervaded his campaign against Daniel Stewart 's and Melville College in Edinburgh since last June . |
| 14 | COMEDY star Whoopi Goldberg has trebled her money to make a sequel to the hit film Sister Act . |
| 15 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 16 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 17 | In any case , Anderson has revised his judgment of England 's intellectual culture . |
| 18 | Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ? |
| 19 | He has wrecked her life , ’ she said . |
| 20 | At least for the moment , the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax . |
| 21 | ‘ Your pony has wrecked my garden . |
| 22 | ‘ Dancer Maitland has wrecked my Jamboree , ’ roared Miss Lodsworth . |
| 23 | SOAP hunk Simon Gregson claims being a Coronation Street star has wrecked his love life . |
| 24 | You will have to wait until he starts drawing his pension before getting yours , if you are his ‘ dependant ’ . |
| 25 | The Institute Investigation Committee has delayed its decision on whether to proceed with disciplinary action over Clark Whitehill 's alleged involvement in the Nicholas Young fraud . |
| 26 | The country 's leading try-scorer before sustaining a rib injury on March 17 , he has suffered an ankle injury in training which has delayed his comeback . |
| 27 | Helen Harvey of the Lord Todd has received her presentation for ten years with CCG . |
| 28 | As Stalin scornfully put it , ‘ the bourgeoisie of Finland … by a strange confluence of circumstances has received its independence from the hands of a socialist Russia ’ . |
| 29 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 30 | Any one who is saved , any one who is a Christian , who is a follower of Jesus Christ , who has committed their life to Christ , who has received his forgiveness , and who belongs to him , any one is ready and able to receive the Holy Spirit . |