Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 She has better things to do , as well . ’
2 " And she has good reason to say so when she looks at what has happened to all the rest of them . "
3 She has good reason to believe it .
4 ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him .
5 But it means she has five dogs to look after and
6 In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision .
7 Arms out in front of him , Henry ran up the stairs , thinking , as he ran — She has three minutes to live .
8 Gloria , 52 , is coy about whether she has any plans to marry longtime partner Neagle Cathcart , 37 .
9 This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace .
10 She feels she needs this information to defend herself .
11 The marine invertebrate keeper will encounter more uninvited guests than other hobbyists if he or she uses living rock to decorate their tanks .
12 She uses reversible metaphor to perform an integrative operation on this material , bringing it together in a mobile yet highly structured whole that turns around a small number of common patterns .
13 On Friday , Paula , whose writing emphasises the sound of language , demonstrated how she uses electronic technology to project and enhance her voice during the performance of her work .
14 The carefree quality disappears when she shyly tries to tell the Tutor how fond she has become of him , and when she discovers Natalia and the Tutor in each other 's arms , she loses all inhibitions to denounce them .
15 She wears black gloves to cover her hands and I imagine them veined and stiff under the fabric .
16 She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang .
17 She takes several seconds to sniff up the whole of the line .
18 ‘ How can you want Spain mixed up in such great events ’ , Aranda complained to the Prussian Minister , ‘ when she lacks all means to wage war . ’
19 Alternatively , the reader can interpret this as a sign of her weakness , that she requires this support to justify her actions .
20 She advises worried parents to take their children out to museums , the theatre and cinema , and to make sure that they are getting plenty of interaction with other children .
21 Esther Rantzen is often seen making use of the genre when she asks elderly ladies to do impersonations of Tom Jones or perform an impromptu rumba .
22 She urges all staff to think about what people and the service need .
23 She perceives the symbolism underlying stories from a mythology which can be regarded as patriarchal propaganda and she deconstructs established meanings to effect a shift in emphasis .
24 She does preconceived things to get people upset and get their attention and it 's working .
25 She considers this multiplication to have been especially marked in the later eighteenth century .
26 The visitor to an art museum without any such training or differentiated habitus uses the classifications with which he/she perceives every-day reality to perceive the work of art .
27 It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism .
28 Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent
29 It involves drastic measures to cut the use of energy and materials : 750,000 Chinese bicycles are on order , factories have been shut down .
30 In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor .
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