Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 32 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 33 | It had begun to look as though the Western powers had embraced the premise that no-one kicks a cringing dog . |
| 34 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 35 | He 's certainly made me laugh a few times ! |
| 36 | The top five men and women will win vouchers , the top 100 finishers a T-shirt and everyone receives a commemorative mug and certificate . |
| 37 | We should take a radical approach to the position of elderly people beyond the year 2000 , and consider whether technology can allow them to enjoy a better standard of living and to rely less on residential and nursing homes . |
| 38 | Her direct challenge to the authority of the professionals forced them to acknowledge an alternative conceptualisation of Tom 's needs which carried with it quite different implications for the outcome of the formal assessment of those needs . |
| 39 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 40 | The way the police deal with them is brutal violence — making them swallow a complete glue bag , torturing them , burning out their eyes , cutting out their tongues and their ears . |
| 41 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 42 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 43 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 44 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 45 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 46 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 47 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 48 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 49 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 50 | Now we do n't need so many generals and governors , they let some of them read a few books . |
| 51 | Take one or more of the elements of humour you discovered in yourself and use them to write a funny story . |
| 52 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 53 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 54 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 55 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 56 | To them mathematics will be relevant if it helps their children gain a qualification which , in turn , will enable them to obtain a good job . |
| 57 | ‘ Let me introduce an honest man , Brother Athelstan . |
| 58 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 59 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 60 | They get top coaching and everyone has a great time . ’ |