Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 2 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 3 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 4 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 5 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 6 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 7 | So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy . |
| 8 | ‘ While everyone wants to have a nice looking bass , I think you have to get your priorities in order . |
| 9 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
| 10 | Someone needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years . |
| 11 | If someone wants to put a nuclear power station , a new road or railway , a science park , a supermarket or even a public convenience at the bottom of one 's garden , most people would not want it . |
| 12 | I think someone has done a great wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone has done a lovely drawing of me . |
| 14 | ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . ) |
| 15 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 16 | Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed . |
| 17 | Someone has spotted a prowling car . |
| 18 | Someone 's got a beautiful lawn then ! |
| 19 | If you say someone 's got a big ego , what do you mean ? |
| 20 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 21 | Hauser and Ernst ( 1979 , 1980 ) developed a method which involves solving a homogeneous Hilbert problem . |
| 22 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 23 | O'Conor himself has played a restored Longman and Broderip piano — one which Field favoured , and says that it produced ‘ a unique tinkling sound — no wonder he exploited those high notes . ’ |
| 24 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 25 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 26 | Mr Clark insisted he was completely innocent in the affair , which has provoked a political storm , engulfing even the Prime Minister in allegations that the Government had encouraged firms to breach the arms embargo . |
| 27 | One important theoretical characteristic of logogens which has stimulated a great deal of experimentation is that they mediate priming effects in word recognition , i.e. the faster recognition of a word following previous recent exposure to that word . |
| 28 | The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly . |
| 29 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |
| 30 | Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor . |