Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg said : ‘ We have made it perfectly clear that we intend to invest lots of money in training . |
| 2 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 3 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 4 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 5 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 6 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
| 7 | The Czech government does not want to see lots of companies go under because of a new bankruptcy law . |
| 8 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 9 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 10 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 11 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 12 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 13 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 15 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 16 | Each soul he devoured lanced him with anguish , torment . |
| 17 | It sought to steady itself amidst plasma and shellblast … |
| 18 | She certainly would n't want to drive them to London . |
| 19 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups are n't you ? |
| 20 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups with the changes coming on board , know what I mean ? |
| 21 | He failed to provide me with information which I had requested . ’ |
| 22 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 23 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 24 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 25 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 26 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 27 | Use bold capitals , headlines , sub-heads and underlining Provide plenty of guideposts and signs to assist later retrieval and revision . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've come to find out what you 've done with Kirsty — and when you intend returning her to Lomond View . ’ |
| 29 | There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position . |
| 30 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |