Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 2 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 3 | They had to wait while the Substitute put on his new galoshes , murmuring with a cigar between his teeth : ‘ Do n't want to miss anything this time … ’ |
| 4 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 5 | Jock then tried to hit Denis , who was still swinging at Michael , who did n't want to hit his big brother , and stumbled back into Sean , who jumped to one side and collided with Pat Kelly , knocking his next drink out of his hand ! |
| 6 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 7 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
| 8 | It can be made more complicated by trying to value the choices that managers could make to affect their future cash flows , such as closing a factory , and the choices that are contingent on other choices . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course schools will want to continue their good practice of regular reports to parents and responding to any concerns parents might have . |
| 10 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 11 | And smirk to see my little lolly melt , |
| 12 | However , when the upturn comes , the company , with its strong balance sheet and unique spread of service activities , is well placed to continue its long record of growth . ’ |
| 13 | Lionel Sackville , the Union Jack 's chairman , said the deal would transform it ‘ into a better balanced company , well placed to continue its active exploration programme in a tax-efficient manner ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ … and carve them into art forms which the Coriads purchase and contemplate to stimulate their lateral thinking . ’ |
| 15 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 16 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 17 | On the contrary , much of it — the taxation proposals in particular — is calculated to sacrifice our competitive edge . |
| 18 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 19 | I do n't , when I go I hate to see my front door open . |
| 20 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 21 | ‘ And when he asked you to marry him , you accepted , because you did not want to lose your new-found security . ’ |
| 22 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 23 | ‘ You probably do n't want to see me this morning , but I 've a good reason for being here . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't want to see my hard work wasted . |
| 25 | Misunderstanding had arisen over the " Pretoria Minute " , summarising agreements reached in talks in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] when the ANC agreed to suspend its 30-year policy of armed struggle " and related activities " . |
| 26 | The police are entitled to tell the person walking away from the scene to discontinue using his filthy language , which would in all likelihood constitute an offence under section 5 of the new Act . |
| 27 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 28 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 29 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 30 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |