Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 2 | Xhibition — the X-Windows show — calendared for June 15th to 19th in San Jose , California , is expecting to fetch more than 100 exhibitors : Mircosoft Corp and DEC are citing it as one of the key technical conferences to explore NT and ACE applications development . |
| 3 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 6 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 7 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 8 | Cars are killing us with pollution and accidents . |
| 9 | Les Routiers are offering it to BBC Good Food readers at a special price of £6.99 ( including p&p ) . |
| 10 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 11 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 12 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 13 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 14 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 15 | The dark eyes were raking her from head to toe , appraising her — from the long , tousled russet hair to the bare feet protruding from beneath the hem of her wrap . |
| 16 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 17 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 18 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 19 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 20 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 21 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 22 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 23 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 24 | I think I am beginning to be very much afraid of what Raynor is taking me to . |
| 25 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 26 | You paying me in 'and , and Dennis is paying me in 'and and I 'll a er , thousand pound a week , the way that I keep getting these job offers . |
| 27 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 28 | During the filming of another sea-going saga , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 version ) , Charles Laughton upstaged Gable , who complained to director Frank Lloyd , ‘ Laughton 's treating me like an extra . |
| 29 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 30 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |