Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 2 | Next morning off they go to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it 's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along . |
| 3 | Amsterdam Travel Service guarantees to confirm all your holiday requirements within 1 hour ! |
| 4 | We have to go through the ‘ dark night of the soul ’ , and that involves using both our minds and our bodies . |
| 5 | As human beings , we would come to what seems the obvious explanation of this chain , ( that the woman was scared ) bringing to bear all our knowledge of how things happen in the world . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect we 'll want to know all their names , ’ said the fat boy , ‘ and make a list . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to struggle all my life for nothing . |
| 9 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 10 | Jonathon has painted ⅜ of the post while Raymond has painted ⅛ What fraction of the post have they painted altogether ? |
| 11 | And when she has gathered all her tribute |
| 12 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 13 | He begged her to forgive him all he had done amiss , and alter a pause he said , ‘ God has forgiven all my sins . ' ’ |
| 14 | On policy Antall stated : " The European Community is our most important target and we want to concentrate all our means to join as an associate member as soon as possible , and later to become a full member . " |
| 15 | In a systematic study of his own dream life Freud tried to relate all his dreams to feelings and thoughts experienced the previous day . |
| 16 | He is able to draw on a wealth of experience and he has attacked all his duties with surprisingly youthful enthusiasm , tempered with a great deal of patience . |
| 17 | Now the 60-year-old film star has cancelled all her engagements until the end of the year . |
| 18 | On me , it looked like the fairy on a Christmas tree which has shed all its needles . |
| 19 | I want to pass all my exams , I want my mum and dad to be proud of me . |
| 20 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 21 | But first I want to pull all their nails out , ’ shouted one man . |
| 22 | The accompanying illustrations , which are fifty in number , were taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself , and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould , with that admirable success , which has attended all her works . ’ |
| 23 | After the village has met all its needs for fodder , the energy potential of the remaining crop wastes and animal wastes is enough to fuel the village ( for cooking , pumping water , making fertilisers ) and still leave a surplus . |
| 24 | anyone claiming protection has met all its terms and conditions ; and |
| 25 | anyone claiming protection has met all its terms and conditions ; and |
| 26 | anyone claiming protection has met all its terms and conditions ; and |
| 27 | anyone claiming protection has met all its terms and conditions ; and |
| 28 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 29 | A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops . |
| 30 | Procter & Gamble ( US ) has moved all its television buying into two agencies ; Wells , Rich Greene/BDDP and DMB&B . |