Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 2 | That turns me on that does . |
| 3 | Does that reassure you on that one , or do you still think you were being asked to do something ? |
| 4 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 5 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 6 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 7 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 8 | I thought it would be much easier to see her in those sort of surroundings . |
| 9 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 10 | This involves me in some paperwork , which , however tedious … |
| 11 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 12 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 13 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 14 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 15 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 16 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 17 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 18 | The shadow Leader of the House can not ask me to hear a point of order from the Front Bench when I am not prepared to hear them from those on the Back Benches . |
| 19 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 20 | But this leads us to another possible answer to the question . |
| 21 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 22 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 23 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 24 | This takes me into another key word and it is education . |
| 25 | This takes us into some very interesting work about point of view . |
| 26 | Unlike Meadow 's syndrome mothers , these women did not seem to relish their child 's hospital stay , nor were they willing to subject them to any investigation , however painful and unpleasant . |
| 27 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 28 | The difference is that the insects live that way because they are following their only instinct in that sphere and this excludes them from all other forms of living . |
| 29 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 30 | His face filled with sly mockery , he allowed his eyes to slide insultingly over her , and a sneer pulled at his mouth as he said softly , ‘ Maybe I was wrong to ditch you after all . |