Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 2 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 3 | Is not that why everyone has good reason to know that Tory Governments mean higher VAT ? |
| 4 | The chairman will also have to organize the panel during the interview , making sure that everyone has sufficient time to ask their questions but without allowing the process to get out of hand and overrun . |
| 5 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 6 | ‘ I made sure Ryan found out about it . |
| 7 | I made sure Frankie washed himself and warned him to behave himself as well . |
| 8 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 9 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 10 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 11 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 12 | I mean other girls have passed . |
| 13 | No , no way , we used to , we used to , I mean ancient man did |
| 14 | As I 've , I mean divisional guidelines forthrising costing I 've added to the related documents and I 'll produce those because they 're a divisional thing . |
| 15 | I mean marginal land tends to be brought into use , the less productive land , precisely when there is a pre the pressure |
| 16 | erm I agree , and I actually think these figures are relatively crude , but I mean , there is , clearly there are correlations between low income , which most I mean unemployed people have of course got , and ill health . |
| 17 | I mean Special Branch has asked us to come in . |
| 18 | Well , yes , I mean Green politics do go to every area of life , obviously er we ca n't devolve the er environment from the rest of our activities . |
| 19 | I mean National Grid gave them a bit of cable . |
| 20 | now , you know , they 've been watching them , they know they 're a blind couple , I mean blind people feel that vulnerable that you 're asking them to go |
| 21 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 22 | I make sure Mum looks presentable on Mondays and Thursdays . |
| 23 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 24 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 25 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 26 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 27 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 28 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 29 | This is version one of what promises to be one of the leading packages in this field , and , given that that is the case , I expect future versions to add greatly to its functionality . |
| 30 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |