Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 2 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 3 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 4 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 5 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 6 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 7 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 8 | I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when |
| 9 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 10 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
| 11 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 12 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 13 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 14 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 15 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 16 | Rehearsing the likely interview with a friend and asking them to look out for these points can help . |
| 17 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 18 | This system contains two neutron stars orbiting each other , and the energy they are losing by the emission of gravitational waves is causing them to spiral in toward each other . |
| 19 | Collect four coupons and each set of coupons allows you to claim up to four tickets and it was a pound a ticket was n't it ? |
| 20 | I was , I was n't meaning you to go up in single numbers I was meaning , go up in hundreds . |
| 21 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 22 | I need you to go back to that two-dimensional universe again . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want you to go back to that flat for any reason at all , ’ Julius instructed her in clipped tones . |
| 24 | Other utilities allow you to support up to four other users on the same system , each of which has a different key , allowing different levels of access to the system . |
| 25 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 26 | Once you are over 60 , the Inland Revenue allows you to invest up to 40 per cent of your earnings tax free into a pension plan . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not want you to find out like this , ’ he said , more gently . |
| 28 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 29 | When it is finished , I want you to come around behind that curtain and up onto the stage . |
| 30 | ‘ Is there something , ’ George asked icily , ‘ about the atmosphere of this place that causes you to come up with such expressions ? |