Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was pleased that Lawrie McMenemy watched me and said good things about me , that 's another boost . |
| 2 | It 's an interesting story to me and raises personal issues as well . |
| 3 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 4 | How different they were ( we who worked in primary schools thought ) from the secondary schools described in the Newsom Report of 1963 in which ‘ children sat through lessons with information and exhortation washing over them and leaving little deposit ’ . |
| 5 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 6 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 7 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 8 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 10 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 11 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
| 12 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 13 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 14 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
| 15 | PP : of course , Ben always challenged the artists he wrote for , extended them and offered new insights into the capabilities of their own voices or instruments . |
| 16 | Those who , like Ehrenreich , acknowledge the utility of medical science , want to decontaminate its practice by changing the class , sex and racial composition of medical personnel and promoting a cultural revolution in medical institutions to " purify " them and instil new values . |
| 17 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 18 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
| 19 | In all cases , the experiences will be more powerful if they relate directly to children 's current theories , and offer them the opportunity to test them and consider alternative accounts . |
| 20 | Mothers told their children to behave or Eric Cauldhame would get them and do horrible things to them with worms and maggots . |
| 21 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 22 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |
| 23 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 24 | THE boyfriend of the Teesside woman shot during a visit to the United States has said the couple want to put the incident behind them and lead normal lives . |
| 25 | In a speech to Hungary 's National Assembly , Yeltsin expressed the hope that the two countries could put their mutual bitter past behind them and relaunch bilateral relations on a fresh sheet . |
| 26 | Banks thus compete against each other for them and negotiate individual terms with the firm to suit the firm 's particular requirements . |
| 27 | This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies . |
| 28 | One girl told me that though she had never taken them herself , her friend had tried them and turned bright orange . |
| 29 | Complicated tasks face social service departments in trying to meet the claims for service made on them and to offer constructive assistance within statutory responsibilities and resource constraints . |
| 30 | Clearly the questions must be such that the relevant population can be expected to understand them and to make informed responses . |