Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb base] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 2 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
| 3 | Many people I know deplore the digging of these cant quarries and call them ugly eyesores and the rape of the country . |
| 4 | While other options were being carried out , and before the text was ready to receive entries for completely new words and meanings , it might well be desirable to begin to assemble these new entries and hold them ready in advance , so as to speed production and make the best use of the system 's storage capacity . |
| 5 | On the night of 11 October , a day after Hunt 's publication , Protestants gathered on the Shankill Road to attack the Catholic Unity Flats , threw stones and bottles at the British troops who were thwarting their advance , overturned cars and set them ablaze , and , unprecedentedly , directed gunfire at the RUC . |
| 6 | Forestry workers say joyriders who steal cars and set them alight in isolated woodland risk causing a devastating forest fire . |
| 7 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 8 | I should go to the shops and get me some , get myself some actually . |
| 9 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 10 | Gather up some fondant trimmings and colour them brown . |
| 11 | Spoon the dip into the pineapple shells and arrange them top to toe on a large serving plate . |
| 12 | Thank you award winners and thank you all for your contribution to Save The Children Fund . |
| 13 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’ |
| 15 | Alternatively , the analyst could say these different sentences to a group of listeners and ask them all to write down what attitudes they thought were being expressed ; however , we have a vast range of adjectives available for labelling attitudes and the members of the group would probably produce a very large number of such adjectives , leaving the analyst with the problem of deciding whether pairs such as ‘ pompous ’ and ‘ stuck-up ’ , or ‘ obsequious ’ and ‘ sycophantic ’ were synonyms or represented different attitudes . |
| 16 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
| 17 | Britain is pressing the UN to rotate troops to ease the burden on individual countries and make it easier for nations to offer forces for the growing number of peacekeeping duties around the world . |
| 18 | After Maastricht , he expects to raise cohesion funds , to be spent in Europe 's remote corners and bring us all into one happy family . |
| 19 | A key assumption in economics is that money can be used to buy things that satisfy people 's wants and make them happy ( ‘ utilities ’ ) . |
| 20 | It is because of this , as well as her own personal charisma and dedication to a cause she really cares about , that Mrs Gellatly 's won stall is a runaway success ( I use the word ‘ runaway ’ deliberately because of the remark by an observant onlooker that he had yet to see Mrs Gellatly walk , and I was immediately , and I think aptly , reminded of the hymn ‘ Take my feet and make them swift and beautiful for Thee ’ ) . |
| 21 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 22 | Oddly , as foreign secretary , Major asked his old school , Rutlish Grammar , to deposit his records in Surrey county archives and keep them secret ; later , as Prime Minister , he was to claim that he could not remember how many O levels he had . |
| 23 | Fed up of seeing a box of if I collected those tins and put them Back door open or not ? |
| 24 | The sale proceeds will be used to pay off Heywood Williams 's debts and give it net cash of £65 million to fund expansion . |
| 25 | They may want to leave the hassle of day-to-day practice , but even so , retain their skills and find it difficult to close the book on a lifetime in the profession they love . |
| 26 | His blind refusal to break the rules and give us any information was so bloody irritating . |
| 27 | The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff . |
| 28 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 29 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 30 | Police said ten armed men broke into a warehouse late on Tuesday night in the south of Medellin , Escobar 's home town , poured petrol over six Rolls-Royces , a Mercedes , a Porsche and 20 motorcycles and set them ablaze . |