Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using drama as a part of the learning process , English teachers will be providing experiences for pupils which will help them make an informed choice when considering drama as a subject option , whether for GCSE or as part of a non-examined course in combined or expressive arts . |
| 2 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 3 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 4 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 5 | Her direct challenge to the authority of the professionals forced them to acknowledge an alternative conceptualisation of Tom 's needs which carried with it quite different implications for the outcome of the formal assessment of those needs . |
| 6 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 7 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 8 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 9 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 10 | ‘ Let me introduce an honest man , Brother Athelstan . |
| 11 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 12 | The strict selection of monks applying to Saint-Vanne and the high standards of learning it demanded of them provide an early insight into Pérignon 's own capabilities . |
| 13 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 14 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 15 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 16 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 17 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 18 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 19 | If Ah remember rightly , he says the Gómez family already had Irish connections , so it was fairly simple fur them to find an impoverished landowner with a beautiful daughter goin' spare . |
| 20 | ‘ I became an involuntary expert on Christabel LaMotte . |
| 21 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 22 | ‘ I made an amazing discovery today , ’ he told her . |
| 23 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’ |
| 25 | ( To Nick [ disguised as a girl ] ) Suppose I made an indecent suggestion to you ? |
| 26 | I made an immediate resolution to give Aunt Hettie 15 bob of that each Friday night . |
| 27 | One night earlier this season I made an excellent catch of bream . |
| 28 | I once asked my stage director what would happen if I made an unexpected ritardando . |
| 29 | By ‘ softness ’ I mean an opposite quality which is not always a fault . |
| 30 | By ‘ contract ’ , I mean an educational contract , in which the institution is in effect undertaking to provide the student with the kind of programme that he or she wants , in return for the student 's active participation . |