Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 2 | It took the bank almost two months to write him a curt letter saying it was not interested . |
| 3 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 4 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 5 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 6 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 7 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 8 | These raised the nap on the cloth , which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish . |
| 9 | A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things . |
| 10 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 11 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 12 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 13 | Consequently , the result is a dull plod , a sort of po-faced mini-series in which a whole bunch of set-pieces go begging for some cinematic tricks to give them a proper build-up and punchline . |
| 14 | ‘ I trust you 'll have no objections if I use whatever influence I have with the airlines to get you the first available seat ? ’ |
| 15 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 16 | DETECTIVES were trying to find out yesterday why scientists took 49 days to tell them a supposed murder victim was killed by drugs . |
| 17 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 18 | If they do n't contain a waterproof membrane such as Gore-Tex or Sympatex , you can obtain spray-on products to give them a water-repellent finish . |
| 19 | If you have time , pipe a little flavoured butter around the tartlets to give them a professional finish . |
| 20 | Pluralism is a development of democratic theory and recognises that often individuals can best get their views heard by combining in groups to give them a stronger voice . |
| 21 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 22 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |
| 24 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 25 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 26 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |
| 27 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 28 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 29 | Each platoon had placed two men on guard duty , with orders to change them every two hours , to ensure that no one went without rest . |
| 30 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |