Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 2 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 3 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 4 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 5 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 6 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 7 | Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea . |
| 8 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 9 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 10 | I mean serious winter puddings , steamed , boiled and baked , sticky , rich and sweet , that sit fair and square on the plate and fill you with a glorious glow of warmth and well-being . |
| 11 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |
| 12 | who tells you your not a , I mean aggressive truck drivers are frightening |
| 13 | I mean isolated farm houses in |
| 14 | I lay awake writing letters to you |
| 15 | I met other bird watchers and we swopped sightings . |
| 16 | So far as he was concerned , I could become a Muslim or a Jew , provided I got good School Certificates . |
| 17 | And er when it come to the election of a shop steward about in ni nineteen er I think it were nineteen twenty seven , it were nineteen twenty seven er I there were two hundred in our shop and I got elected shop steward , mainly I think because a lot more , most did n't did n't want to be bothered you know but anyway I I and so that 's what I retained . |
| 18 | I hate thick stuff mum . |
| 19 | Meanwhile I found other knitting groups right in ‘ my ’ province and took Arune with me to talk with the other women in it in the hope that they could answer the questions that I could n't . |
| 20 | ‘ When I heard the Cup competition had no sponsor , I approached Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson who passed the request on to Production Director Peter Robinson . ’ |
| 21 | Instead , I phoned Labour Party headquarters and spoke to Mr Whitty , the person in charge of national membership . |
| 22 | I want hot cross bun . |
| 23 | I want good finance women and I want good information women . |
| 24 | I want good finance women and I want good information women . |
| 25 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 26 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 27 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 28 | I think to myself , if the walls were ivory instead of mauve , and if I put fine ash floorboards down where the fat grey carpet used to be , would I then be happy and unafraid ? |
| 29 | I put full time education on it ed that 's a are n't I so I 'm |
| 30 | The gels , the sturdy Gwendolen of Susannah Harker and Claire Skinner 's pretty ingenue Cecily did well enough , though their voices suggested current RADA-speak rather than , I imagine fin-de-siecle deb talk . |