Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coventry were so poor there was nothing for Wright to get excited about . |
| 2 | Northam ( 1988 ) points out how the Metropolitan police have responded with ‘ considerable imagination ’ to the apathy and cynicism of lower ranks by putting them through courses designed to combat sexism , racism and what he calls the John Wayne machismo ‘ canteen culture ’ . |
| 3 | However , a strong cup tradition backed up by five Monmouthshire titles in seven years and 18 Ben Francis Cup wins counted for nothing as Blaina struggled to find the consistency necessary to mount a successful promotion campaign . |
| 4 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 5 | So I got them for Rob Chewchocks Chewchocks So you did n't get any of these did you ? |
| 6 | ‘ What 's this your mother tells me about Markham coming to work at OBEX ? ’ |
| 7 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 8 | And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents . |
| 9 | In initiating my original purchase I incur an obligation to make a payment in money , but I in turn have to have a source from which I can acquire the money in the first place , and this will , directly or indirectly , put me into at least a temporary relationship with a great variety of people , including the reader who purchased this book from a bookstall and paid out money , some small fraction of which will eventually find its way back to myself . |
| 10 | So that 's how things stood in those year in the the days before nineteen sixty nine and I in fact did learn about removals in the late sixties . |
| 11 | Could I in fact have chosen in a manner more worthy of my dignity as a rational agent ? |
| 12 | No , I mean , no someone in London has decided it 'll mean less paperwork so all the judg all the erm people in in er Birmingham are going down to complain . |
| 13 | ‘ Ashenden backed a horse yesterday-a horse he said someone in Cambridge had tipped — he put a fiver on it — and it won ! |
| 14 | Her travelling companions had quietened , as if someone in authority had arrived . |
| 15 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 16 | " No ; unfortunately too many people in the organization over here know you as Paddy Montgomery ; if someone from Dublin wants to check up on your credentials — as they surely will — then we need to use your established name . |
| 17 | Someone on Ardakke had managed to steak a small amount of phetam — and , probably , to spirit it off-planet . |
| 18 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
| 19 | Someone at headquarters seems to have confused Blaziowitz with Pratzen . ’ |
| 20 | So the sergeant came down into the cellar and again was awarded a pint ; he explained that the wing commander was wanted back at Oakington immediately because someone at HQ wanted to speak to him . |
| 21 | Nothing of substance has emerged recently on which to question it . ’ |
| 22 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 23 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 24 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 25 | El País of April 19 said that Menem had thus " opened a new front for political struggle within Peronism " ; the Saadi family which for decades had wielded considerable power in Catamarca , had provided crucial support to Menem in his ascent to presidential office . |
| 26 | However , the arrival on the scene of wonder drugs developed in Britain and America at long last conquered this disease which for decades had struck down young and old . |
| 27 | Also , the direct experience of ‘ contact ’ with the Führer through his major speeches , which for years had served as the ritualistic form of plebiscitary ‘ meeting ’ between the Leader and his people , to be repeated at regular intervals , took place only infrequently after 1942 . |
| 28 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 29 | These woods gave cover to the herds of wild deer which for centuries had provided sport for the kings and nobility , guests of the Berkeley family at the nearby castle . |
| 30 | printing papers which after making have had a surface coating with clay etc , to give a smoother , more even finish with greater opacity . |