Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , as islands are ( by definition ) separated from other land , and in particular are cut off from continents , they tend each to evolve their own particular sub-species , at least of creatures that do not easily cross open sea . |
| 2 | Those governments that borrow short-term to cover their immediate cash-flow problems , without moving to put their finances on a sound footing , are likely to be given an even harder time by investors and credit-raters alike . |
| 3 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 4 | and I got that doing my eight |
| 5 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want this to change my whole life . |
| 7 | To us it is clear that it was the forms of social organisation in which such evidence was carried that gave them this quality and not the intrinsic nature of the evidence itself . |
| 8 | And it looks set to see its first full-year profit drop in 28 years . |
| 9 | This exciting prospect , a bequest from the late Jim Joel to the Queen Mother , looks set to give his new owner a memorable season following four wins last term culminating in the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 10 | Gordon looks set to make his Premier Division debut against bottom of the table Dunfermline this weekend . |
| 11 | West Germany 's Daimler-Benz looks set to win its long battle for control of the country 's aerospace industry . |
| 12 | LISS looks set to get its new junior school this year , villagers heard at the parish council 's annual general meeting but there is bitter disappointment that it could be at the cost of a community centre . |
| 13 | A VILLAGE outside Darlington looks set to get its own portable village hall . |
| 14 | Alexander McKay had a satisfactory year in a more difficult market and continued to work hard to increase their offshore market penetration . |
| 15 | You may have to work hard to change their conditioned response . |
| 16 | By now she was having to work hard to keep her fast-rising temper in check . |
| 17 | That we arrived back at base in such good shape was largely due to the magnificent efforts of our engineers Bob McSmythurs and Dave Parker who had to work hard to keep our ageing engines turning over . |
| 18 | Manager Ferguson is still undecided on his team but £1million Dion Dublin looks likely to start his first game . |
| 19 | They ganged together round the buffet , whingeing about business and interest-rate hikes , doing gamesmanship numbers on each other , exchanging racy stories and tall tales and laughing fit to bust their considerable guts . |
| 20 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 21 | Charlotte Keatley 's My Mother Said ] Never Should has been greeted with great acclaim by the male critical establishment who appear unable to apply their usual standards to the work of a young woman . |
| 22 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 23 | The process of becoming successful makes it impossible for fans and the band to visualise and treat each other in the same way . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , those who wish for lasting secure recovery will need to learn to consider feedback from any source and family members who truly desire longterm recovery for their loved ones will need first to understand their own " family disease " and get into recovery from it before learning the techniques of giving open and honest non-judgemental feedback to others . |
| 25 | You will please to see that she has enough to cover her present needs . |
| 26 | He did n't indulge in the crude autopsy humour which some of his colleagues found necessary to bolster their social self-esteem ; dinner guests could know themselves safe from distasteful anecdotes about carving knives or missing kidneys . |
| 27 | His influence in stemming the Swansea flow could not be overstated and he now looks certain to face his fellow countrymen in two weeks ' time . |
| 28 | This was the William Joyce who mattered — the man who moved thousands to cheer his own version of the ‘ final solution ’ — not the political slapstick of Lord Haw-Haw for which he was put to death . |
| 29 | ‘ Foreigner , like , ’ said Archie , forthcoming on account of the fact that Sergeant Joe still looked ready to do him grievous bodily harm . |
| 30 | We receive grant-in-aid to cover our basic running costs from the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department , and additional income from individual research grants , both private and public , but such income does not allow us to fund visiting scientists . |