Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us imagine that Big Ted , having heard me talk about this point , is trying to explain it to Little Ted in the pub afterwards : |
| 2 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 3 | Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways . |
| 4 | Government in not allowing them passports until 1985 might have protected the children at a crucial time in their development . |
| 5 | Kelly did n't make them quarter to ten comes in . |
| 6 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 7 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 8 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 9 | They all have six legs and tripartite bodies and these characters clearly make them members of that great and varied group of land invertebrates , the insects . |
| 10 | These rules must have that generality and universality which make them ingredients in impartial determinations and sufficient precision and bite to be used in making genuine resolutions of disputes , for instance , over territory ; second , the extension of the role and jurisdiction of juridically sound international courts on the model of the International Court of Justice , to which there will be compulsory reference of disorder endangering disputes to be decided by the application of the relevant set of reformed international laws , and the decisions of which would be mandatory with no reservations permitted ; 4 third , the massive extension of non-coercive jural agencies in the area of enforcement where this is taken to mean the monitoring of the behaviour of states in relation to international law and the decisions of international courts . |
| 11 | ‘ We have now allocated five new frequencies to BR and given them access to two others . ’ |
| 12 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 13 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 14 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 15 | I shall throw my bouquet to one of you at the wedding and who knows , there might be another wedding in the not too distant future for somebody . |
| 16 | I have flown my plane with cadged army fuel six hundred miles . |
| 17 | ‘ Here , ’ he said ( or some such generous word ) : I grabbed the bag from him and got my fingers round some dried fruit and stuffed into my mouth . |
| 18 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not going to lose my credibility on this train by being caught coming out of the help 's bedroom . ’ |
| 20 | These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects . |
| 21 | Grey is the colour of the mist that shrouded my thoughts during this period . |
| 22 | Seeing my daughter like this . |
| 23 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 24 | But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ? |
| 25 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 26 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 27 | I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number . |
| 28 | Indeed without any wish to evade my responsibility for subsequent events , I think I may fairly claim that in everything I did in re Karen and her husband I was market-led . |
| 29 | Doubled up with pain , I found support between two Lada cars ( what else ? ) and emptied my insides with great gasping spouts . |
| 30 | When we reached Dieppe I emptied my kit into another bad and popped Emily into my rucksack . |