Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 2 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 3 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 4 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 5 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 6 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 7 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 8 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 9 | All Angus did was pull his robe tighter around him and slump in one of the high-backed chairs to glower at us . |
| 10 | The crew nodded at her and yelled in bloodthirsty assent . |
| 11 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 12 | The ward clerk glanced at her and stuck in another report . |
| 13 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 14 | I dug into the War Bag , drew out the air-pistol , cocked it and fired in one movement . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the book which he based upon it and published in 1893 under the title De la Division du travail social : étude sur l'organisation des sociétes supérieures is without question one of the most influential and stimulating in the whole field of the social sciences . |
| 16 | ‘ Whilst the German idea looks very attractive the NFA have examined it and believe in this country it would be impractical , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He says they know about it and work in most cases is underway . |