Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 2 | 'E 's got a good look on — it must be a bit o' good land . ’ |
| 3 | She wants to take a luxury winter cruise … next January … |
| 4 | She has achieved a great deal , and made a valuable contribution to our company 's efficiency over these last seven years . |
| 5 | Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a considerable reduction in sugar intake . |
| 6 | Without it , she has become a virtual prisoner in her own home ; she is ruled by the clock and the hours worked by her local authority helpers . |
| 7 | College Report has recorded over the years most of Marjorie Boulton 's considerable output of writing , both in English and in Esperanto , a field in which she has become a leading international figure and through which she has enjoyed much travel and many friendships . |
| 8 | She has become a mature , sensible woman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She has played a vital part in some of the most important movements and problems of the last 25 years , the ecumenical movement , the problem of refugees , the problems of world poverty and hunger , the problem of race relations . |
| 10 | ‘ She has suffered a great deal . |
| 11 | How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ? |
| 12 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 13 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
| 14 | She has demonstrated a wellknown fact about physical punishment — it can lead to avoidance . |
| 15 | Instead she has developed a strict routine for short haul trips to get her across her pain barrier . |
| 16 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 17 | She has maintained a happy mixture of information , entertainment and stimulation in a neat package . |
| 18 | She works fast , adding one strip to the rim of the hardening strip below until she has built a small bottle , complete with an elegant out-turned lip to its mouth . |
| 19 | She has made a crucial contribution to the race and representation debate in the U.S. Through works of self-investigation and transformation Piper explores her own racial identity and forces viewers to question their own values and beliefs . |
| 20 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 21 | She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful . |
| 22 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 23 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 24 | She has made a wooden impression in televised debates . |
| 25 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 26 | It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements . |
| 27 | Also , on the basis of an outline and ‘ three or four ’ chapters of a first novel , she has done a five-figure deal for two books by Juliette Mead , a woman in her early 30s who works in the cit . |
| 28 | ‘ She has done a wonderful job , ’ district organiser Barbara Noakes said . |
| 29 | To mark the launch of SuperCalc 5.5 she has prepared a 16-page booklet covering all its new features in more depth than was possible in this article and this is available FREE to readers of Practical PC . |
| 30 | This month she has contributed a terrific interview with Jane Goodall , the intrepid watcher and champion of chimpanzees ( see pages 34–36 ) . |