Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his conviction Rashid told journalists that the guilty verdict " was a gift for the Americans " and that " the court had to find me guilty to balance the decision against extraditing me " . |
| 2 | To find someone able to do the work look in the LRO ads We recently purchased a 1983 Land Rover County 110 2.25 petrol . |
| 3 | It would presumably not be worth splitting the task into two for small batches because the communication costs between programmer and operator , with the frequent interaction needed given the small batch size , would outweigh the savings made in wage costs from hiring someone semi-skilled to do the machining . |
| 4 | Is someone reluctant to sell the land to you so you can go ahead ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And so often it is better for someone other to make the choosing . ’ |
| 6 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 7 | This is a tedious process and to short-circuit the boredom you will often find someone eager to move the motion : " That the minutes of the previous meeting be taken as read . " |
| 8 | The implications of this for the relation between how and the infinitive are exactly the same as with need and dare : if the means of realizing the infinitive 's event are not felt to exist , then there is felt to be nothing real occupying the before-position which real means always occupy with respect to the end pursued , and therefore no to preceding the infinitive . |
| 9 | Phoebe was surprised ; she had somehow thought that after Rachel 's sterling conduct of the night before , she would now take charge , go on looking after them all , manage everything for them and leave her free to walk the road that she had to walk . |
| 10 | Much later , when she returned from her walk with Rosie , she found her mama-to-be inspecting the nursery floor with Nanny . |
| 11 | Police investigating the death of a man who walked into a shop in west London today and set himself alight found the body of a woman in a house opposite . |
| 12 | Her little close the door , darling ! |
| 13 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 14 | She got back to her flat to find the phone ringing . |
| 15 | A greater commitment to this music will ensure its continuing to enrich the worship of the people of God . |
| 16 | We talked to a gatherer who had misjudged the tides and found himself unable to leave the cave for thirty-two days . |
| 17 | Mr Major proved himself reluctant to wield the knife , sparing Mr William Waldegrave , who was put in charge of the Citizen 's Charter , and Mr Lilley . |
| 18 | Mr Oliver says its important to keep the rink for the community , the skaters and the ice-hockey team , which is profitable . |
| 19 | Even Mr Sugden made himself available to meet the visitor , ready to assume that here was the returning warrior , eager to see areas of the country which only he could recommend . |
| 20 | Such a policy would undermine the skill differentials which essential to maintain the incentive for individuals to train . |
| 21 | But this whole account depends on the argument about children 's single-sex peer groups , an argument which just pushes the problem back a stage . |
| 22 | Their faltering affected the hitting power of whole regiments . |
| 23 | Evidently the Rector felt himself obliged to remedy the silence . |
| 24 | So here here 's a case where this conflict of interest leads the parents to actually kind of encourage their young to leave the nest and , and , and wander off . |
| 25 | As the habitat shrinks , parents abandon their young to lessen the competition for food . |
| 26 | The majority are deterred by the garden 's high altitude and exposure to winds , whilst ladybirds or resident blue tits feeding their young devour the remainder . |
| 27 | I think it was that which made her frightened to accept the truth when he was sexually assaulting me . |
| 28 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 29 | Nothing soft to cushion the fall . |
| 30 | Coming to Dolphin for your fitted bathroom takes all the worry off your shoulders and leaves you free to enjoy the result . |