Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 3 | Now she is absolutely delighted to see me in Formula One . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Against the advice of Brooke , Major met them on May 15 in an attempt to break the deadlock , after which Paisley said that the talks would " definitely " continue . |
| 6 | eat them in park one day |
| 7 | The high-flyers are easy to pick too , starting with the same title that led them in July last year , and for that matter back all the way to its expected original paperback appearance in April 1989 ! |
| 8 | To enable them to police such a large and inaccessible area he recommended the building of a number of new fortresses , to be linked , by road and water , for rapid reinforcement . |
| 9 | Number them in sequence 1 , 2 , 3 etc , left to right on each line . |
| 10 | They asked me for £400,000 each . |
| 11 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 12 | Sir Stafford Cripps in 1950 pegged them at £410 million . |
| 13 | Jane , as the nearest thing to a next-door neighbour , asked them to drinks that weekend . |
| 14 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When Chris Nicholl re-signed me for Southampton last March for £600,000 , he told me I was a big part of his plans . |
| 16 | Introduce them to dishes free of the four zeros , offer alternatives to tea or coffee , and see how many of them accept . |
| 17 | ‘ My client wants you to kill someone on Level 121 , ’ he said , low , even though the bartender and anyone else in what might possibly be earshot were making it obvious they were n't listening . |
| 18 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |
| 19 | I seemed to meet everyone in doorways that evening . |
| 20 | Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty ! |
| 21 | ‘ Front ’ cultures have a way of incorporating apparent resistances and incorporating them into forms compatible with the established social order . |
| 22 | The government also planned to distribute areas of forest to families among the Thai and Hmong hill tribespeople in order to encourage them to farm one area of land continuously rather than using traditional " slash and burn " methods . |
| 23 | About a week later I met Mr Jaggers by chance in the street , and he invited me to dinner that evening . |
| 24 | Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good . |
| 25 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 26 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 27 | Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor . |
| 28 | Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship . |
| 29 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 30 | We reported earlier that in 1984 20 per cent of all establishments used such workers and seven per cent used them in numbers equal to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |