Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 4 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 5 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 7 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 8 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 9 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 10 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 11 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 12 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
| 13 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 14 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 15 | Virtually everyone has heard about the importance of adequate protein in the diet . |
| 16 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 17 | Everyone has to join in the charade : ah , what a good family we are ! |
| 18 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 19 | Erm I wanted to ask erm I ga I assume that everyone has read through the bumf that I 've been merrily distributing . |
| 20 | Everyone has left for the weekend . |
| 21 | We should extend the same decency to English people who come to live in Scotland , the vast majority of whom want to integrate into the community while retaining their own distinctive national identity . |
| 22 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 23 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 24 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 25 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 26 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 27 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 29 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 30 | " Are you sure that nothing has happened since the weekend ? |