Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
| 2 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 3 | Our timber floor is made of attractive boards in good condition , so I 'm wondering if there are any problems with staining them and then finishing them using a clear varnish . |
| 4 | It is justly ironic that the Government , which refused to control the industry and protect the environment , has also refused to help them conduct a price-fixing operation . |
| 5 | They know about science from television and from their school teacher , and any other source of information to them is really beneficial to let them make a sensible decision . |
| 6 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 7 | But before I do this , let me make a philosophical point . |
| 8 | President Bush defended his administration 's cautious response , saying he had seen no facts since Tuesday which ‘ would have made me make a different decision ’ . |
| 9 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
| 10 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 11 | ( b ) it enables them to cultivate a particular part , or segment , of a market . |
| 12 | ‘ You have also invited me to wear a British hat , ’ Mark continued . |
| 13 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 14 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 15 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 16 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 17 | You shall perceive them make a mutual stand , |
| 18 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 19 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 20 | Moreover should you persuade them to attend a local rally or the Crystal Palace Reunion they will immediately reap the benefit of obtaining their tickets at a reduced rate . |
| 21 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 22 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 23 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 24 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 25 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 26 | The way the police deal with them is brutal violence — making them swallow a complete glue bag , torturing them , burning out their eyes , cutting out their tongues and their ears . |
| 27 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 28 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 29 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 30 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |