Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , you could have loads , there 's , there 's loads of room if you , could ge if you , if you bring that do it in here |
| 2 | He thinks this keeps him on his mettle , but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word . |
| 3 | I have stock with grandparents from pure Dutch-bred sheep bred in Belgium , and Belgian breeders do buy some stock themselves from Holland . ’ |
| 4 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 5 | Finally , now that you have achieved control over your weight , how has this changed you as a person ? |
| 6 | ‘ Because Edwin , as Gifford 's art executor , was very astute and Marcella has much to thank him for . |
| 7 | Fisher Row is a special case , but Dr Prior 's fascinating study has much to teach us about other occupational groups within our urban societies . |
| 8 | This particular eel ( I think ) has much to endear it to those of us that keep some of the more serious ‘ oddballs ’ . |
| 9 | Carol is not , of course , a ‘ typical ’ child , nor is Dorothy a ‘ typical ’ mother , but the book has much to tell us about one child 's perception of books and their contents . |
| 10 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 11 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 12 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 13 | It can be argued that Reich 's work has much to tell us about contemporary politics . |
| 14 | It has much to tell us of how the local landscape has developed , and we can read the clues , if we know how to examine the building and its surroundings . |
| 15 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 16 | Nor can I feel that the far finer E flat Symphony has much to commend it as a performance , beyond its solid assurance and resilient rhythm . |
| 17 | The Wentwood experience as described in this monograph has much to commend it as a means of enabling people with quite severe learning disabilities to take their part in ‘ normal ’ middle class life ; but as the authors themselves say , ‘ We will not succeed in this ( developing potential for growing as a person ) by concentrating on making people better functioning conglomerates of various skills only ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 18 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 19 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps I can persuade you that the life of a vigneronne has much to recommend it after all . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ You miss having someone you can trust enough to tell them about it . |
| 23 | The surrogate father guides his protégé through his turbulent teens into his twenties when he develops into a mature and secure sportsman with an abundance of technique and a conviction challenging enough to take him to success . |
| 24 | It is important , at the time when they leave home , that she has enough to occupy her of a useful , creative and absorbing kind ( see chapter 16 ) . |
| 25 | I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet . |
| 26 | I stopped him , I said do n't do that leave them in the envelopes and mark them as they are , so what |
| 27 | What can I do that makes me into an acceptable human being ? |
| 28 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 29 | I will pay the agency 's usual commission for your services , plus a bonus for any inconvenience this causes them in their scheduling . |
| 30 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |