Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Each soul he devoured lanced him with anguish , torment . |
| 14 | It sought to steady itself amidst plasma and shellblast … |
| 15 | He failed to provide me with information which I had requested . ’ |
| 16 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 17 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 18 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel . |
| 21 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 22 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 23 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
| 24 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 25 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 26 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 27 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 28 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 29 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |