Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers them another unsettling peacemaking idea ; they invent another excuse for turning it down . |
| 2 | The marvellous thing about basic cheap ottomans is that you can paint them any colour to match the prevailing decor of the room and you can cover the lid with padded material , or even carpet , to make a seat . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 4 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 5 | Yes , if you would please Do n't eat them all Daddy wants some . |
| 6 | In a world of fast transport and high mobility , working for an international company has given me much opportunity to travel , particularly in europe , the United States and the Far East . |
| 7 | It may not apply to anything but I know in the past when she 's given me those things to try erm she 's got a book at home and it 'll say erm particular |
| 8 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 11 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 12 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 13 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 14 | I had in fact made my own labels using some vulgarly bright pink fluorescent cardboard I had found lying about . |
| 15 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 16 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 17 | But Brook supporters have decided to hit back by staging their own demonstration to support the centre 's work . |
| 18 | Three files were full , now , and Yggdrasil created its own spellcheck to access and deal with the problem . |
| 19 | So mestizo culture — reluctant to let go of tradition — created its own deity to host the yearly handout . |
| 20 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 21 | The reason for this , continued James , is that ‘ the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without precedent , and for which no adequate previous rule exists ’ . |
| 22 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 23 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 24 | Now his family wear clothes from jumble sales and grow their own food to save money . |
| 25 | The failure to arrive at an agreement sufficiently alarmed the District to establish its own sub-committee to examine the District 's future relationships with the Cambridge Board and LEAs in the region . |
| 26 | Each noble 's home has its own character reflecting the interests and magical researches of its patrons . |
| 27 | Each city has its own story to tell , and many are very ill-recorded . |
| 28 | Mayotte , part of the Comoro archipelago , is administered by France and has been a collectivité territoriale since December 1976 [ see also above ] ; it has its own 17-member elected General Council , sends one deputy to the National Assembly in Paris and one member to the senate . |
| 29 | Each language has its own patterns to convey the interrelationships of persons and events ; in no language may these patterns be ignored , if the translation is to be understood by its readers . |
| 30 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |