Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the hour I was getting reports coming through to me that the princess wanted to leave the Royal Family . |
| 2 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 3 | As a result I was having tantrums . |
| 4 | because again as adults we realize that if every we ask a question to the trainer you 're asking questions to him and they keep answering them , what does it mean we can do as trainees ? |
| 5 | As part of a larger programme into understanding cognitive function through transgenic animals we are characterising transcripts whose expression is restricted to different subregions of the brain . |
| 6 | In the current term we are receiving requests at the rate of something like twenty five per week and of course that has the implications both in terms |
| 7 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 8 | He was deeply influenced by the great aeronautical pioneers of the day , notably Kingsford-Smith and Ulm , whose epic flights in the southern hemisphere shone like the target indicators he was to introduce years later over Germany . |
| 9 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 10 | Christie 's agent was unaware of the race last night but the sprinter announced on Friday he was shelving plans for a £250,000 race against Carl Lewis and — as Super Sport forecast last month — the clash will place next year . |
| 11 | Well no wonder you were chucking bricks at him , I would have done an'all . |
| 12 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 13 | When our appearance is being changed — in the hairdresser 's , beauty salon or fitting room — there is great vulnerability , and if we ask for assistance we are giving others considerable power to judge us , alter us and witness us stripped of normal dignity . |
| 14 | No wonder they 're called blackouts . ’ |
| 15 | In order to implement this plan they are selecting sports to take part in the Concentration of Resources Programme . |
| 16 | IN Tory headquarters at Stockton South they 're going nuts over the Hershey bar America 's favourite chocolate , apparently . |
| 17 | BRITISH RAIL wants such high-fliers for its new breed of Euro-train guard it is using psychologists to decide suitable candidates . |
| 18 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 19 | The Eliots returned to England at the end of November , and as a precaution against catching bronchitis he was taking antibiotics . |
| 20 | ‘ By the Monday evening I was doing classes with Cecily Robinson … |
| 21 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 22 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 23 | " Everything has to be done as quickly as possible ; the only time we spend extra hours in the garden is over the few weeks we are entering competitions , just to make sure it looks at its best , " says Barbara . |
| 24 | At every stage of the interchurch process we were hearing voices saying to us it is not sufficient that there should be fellowship , agreement , companionship , cooperation at the highest levels but it had to be found at every level , it had to be found at grass roots level . |
| 25 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 26 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
| 27 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 28 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 29 | Over the next ten years they are to fund expeditions abroad , publicising Swindon 's virtues . |
| 30 | Also Martin Foyle , now of course , there , there is a rumour that Ipswich Town are after him , but at the moment he 's scoring goals for Oxford ; five in the last five games , he 's scored two , and also a mention for Steve McLaren . |