Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the meal as they sat in the drawing room , Lady Lassiter did her best to make Tamar feel like an outsider by talking of people and circumstances of which Tamar knew nothing . |
| 2 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 3 | On the other hand Im sick to the back teeth of scum hype , and its nice to see Leeds get some of the credit they deserve . |
| 4 | Quite early in life she decided she wanted to be a dancer and was entranced when she first saw Bode-Medau work while attending a display of various systems of rhythmic movement . |
| 5 | She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked . |
| 6 | When had she last seen Frederick stare at her , worship her ? |
| 7 | It 's just-well , it 's a shared house , we all do things like cooking and cleaning , you know — and usually we eat together . |
| 8 | Erm Romans verse and verse four you notice this text is taken from verse twelve , rejoice in the hope and then persevering prayer , but if you go into verse four , what it 's speaking about there , but just as we have in one body many , members , but the members do not all have the same function and then in six to eight he goes on to describe that we all have gifts do n't we differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us , whether er so forth and so faith , ministry , erm teaching , exhorting , all these different gifts , though sometimes if a particular brother or sister does n't have a particular gift and we think well you know that 's a bit hard going I ca n't seem to listen to them , that 's an area perhaps where we could erm be quivering could n't we , or complaining , especially about assignments , you might get speakers that come here from other congregations , and some are better than others are n't they ? |
| 9 | They both helped Benedicta prepare and serve the meal . |
| 10 | They were finding it hard to make ends meet and life had become very miserable . |
| 11 | As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet . |
| 12 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 13 | Some of the smaller stations already find it difficult to make ends meet — and the arrival of a national commercial channel , which would take most of the country-wide advertising , could put them out of business . |
| 14 | Dr Spink said : ‘ He ought to be defending those who are finding it difficult to make ends meet here . ’ |
| 15 | In any income range , people can find it difficult to make ends meet — especially with steep inflation . |
| 16 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 17 | I do not question the fact that in some parts of the country students are finding it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 18 | Gorge and Mary Webster eventually had another twelve children and found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 19 | He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home . |
| 20 | I find it wise to let people know that I am writing , that I need solitude . |