Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these notes I described the aims and origins of the scheme : |
| 2 | ‘ That was one of the prime reasons I raised the issue , because if the constituents are saying that , it is time the councillors were saying it as well . ’ |
| 3 | For humanitarian reasons I thought the family ought to know . ’ |
| 4 | In terms of the economic activity projections , as a result of representations made to me by one of Professor Lock 's colleagues , that was one of the main reasons I increased the assumptions on the eco economic activity based projection , to increase B one office relocations to a a far higher degree percentage than previously . |
| 5 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 6 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 7 | For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order . |
| 8 | In both cases I recorded the results through a Fostex desk to find out how the Power Tool translates these sounds to tape . |
| 9 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 10 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 11 | In three minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the wind , along the coast of Treasure Island . |
| 12 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
| 13 | At times I thought the process would never end . |
| 14 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 15 | A lot of times I play the guy who knows what to do , and that 's not really me . |
| 16 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 17 | I did quite well at school in the sports area , and for ages and ages I had the school record for the under-14 's javelin … . |
| 18 | For two months I lived the life of a quiet and responsible man . |
| 19 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 20 | If he likes to use large dragons I think the choice of counter-measure if obvious . |
| 21 | On my short acquaintance with Victorian Cichlids I found the males to be single-mindedly aggressive when breeding , but their harassment of tank-mates soon diminishes after spawning . |
| 22 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 23 | Heads says you have the kids , tails I have the combining . |
| 24 | losing her eyes she felt the warmth spreading throughout her body , relaxing her . |
| 25 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 26 | She lowered herself until she was crouched above his thighs ; slipping her hand between her legs she manoeuvred the tip of his cue into the moist entrance of her sensuous channel . |
| 27 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
| 28 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 29 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 30 | From these four words she believes the men were white and local . |