Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 2 | ( a ) it enables them to demand standards of quality , and ranges of goods which fit into their market strategy , rather than accepting what the manufacturer might prefer , |
| 3 | Rental of 's cottage is agreed at Eight Pounds ( £8 ) per day , you to let me know dates of arrival and departure , as I am sure also will . |
| 4 | Behind them rose plumes of steam lit from below by the crackling death of his amps . |
| 5 | It was when , on their leader 's orders , they went to search the huts and hovels and woods beside and ahead of them to find signs of retreat or of ambush that the news they brought back seemed to unsettle their leader and the noblemen from Northumbria and from Fife whom he conferred with . |
| 6 | And my wife and I endured weeks of farewell parties with relatives and friends . |
| 7 | My fifteen miles ' walk had whetted my appetite , and therefore I looked with no angry gaze on Ranza Inn , and , despite the large company of tourists airing themselves outside , I made inquiries for breakfast , and was told it would not be ready for an hour ( it was now nine o'clock ) . |
| 8 | I mean plans for education ? |
| 9 | and I mean things like disrepair , erm inadequate heating , erm noise from other tenants , erm |
| 10 | I mean men in Trade Unions , political parties , not individual men and their harassment . |
| 11 | Well we do n't really actually have any schools si I mean schools of psychology were a thing of the fifties really , there 's no identifiable school of psychol |
| 12 | I ca n't really understand that , since I exercise regularly ( I walk to the sweet shop at least twice a day ) and I eat loads of fitness foods ( like Mars bars and Diet Coke for instance ) . |
| 13 | She refused me the pavillon for a while because she discovered that in the evenings I met friends in town . |
| 14 | Ideal scene — Man U bugger up ( again ) AND I make pots of money out of it ! ! ! |
| 15 | I got howls of protest from readers who thought that I was deliberately misleading them . |
| 16 | I got loads of dosh , look ! |
| 17 | I 'll have a good old rummage this weekend cos I got stacks of stuff ! |
| 18 | I got stacks of dough and I 'm going to make lots more . |
| 19 | I was quite pleased when I got appointments between Christmas and New Year . |
| 20 | I cry tears of helplessness . |
| 21 | In 1983 , visiting a university in provincial Norway , I found students of English grappling perplexedly with Derrida , having been encouraged to do so by their British professor . |
| 22 | There I found nurses in tow , and the pilots who had flown the private jet , and a crew of translators , and some inscrutable domestic staff . |
| 23 | At the back it was stained with a little blood , and in the rough texture of the wool I found fragments of tinder from the broken branch . |
| 24 | Later in the month I visited Strains of War at the Greenwich Citizens Gallery . |
| 25 | Passing by pedestrians in their Sunday best , I caught wafts of perfume and coiffure . |
| 26 | I catch glimpses of stage divers shooting at the brave people below ; bodies bowing over the balcony at queasy angles ; guitarist David Navarro 's sneer ; Eric Avery hunched on his bass ; Perry , in a fishing jacket , moving like a marionette that swallowed a pneumatic drill . |
| 27 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 28 | Our Julie comes , I mean I smoke cigars in house |
| 29 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 30 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |