Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 2 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 3 | To guarantee a good intake of fibrè eat plenty of pulses and vegetables . |
| 4 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 5 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 6 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 7 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 8 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 9 | To avoid the album selling for ludicrous amounts on import , Rough Trade took the decision to issue it in Britain . |
| 10 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 11 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 12 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 13 | I see no opportunity to debate it in Government time . |
| 14 | Taking in several large weirs and the Warden Gorge plus other smaller rapids , the 39km course offers plenty of interest and the organizers hope that it will grow to be comparable with the Liffey Descent and the Devizes to Westminster Race . |
| 15 | Atkinson said : ‘ It 's a blow to lose someone like Shaun , who has been so impressive for us . ’ |
| 16 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 17 | Very few enjoy a personal pension very few enjoy an occupational scheme the greater majority gain nothing from SERPS only one in six receive a full state pension . |
| 18 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 19 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 20 | In time , however , learners and trained staff welcome the opportunity to see themselves as others see them , and endeavour to improve their skills . |
| 21 | But the impact on the camp lacked nothing in effect on that account . |
| 22 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 23 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 24 | The MPIs too could benefit from closer contacts with universities : older members who have passed their first flush of creativity would have the opportunity to refresh themselves by teaching , at the same time attracting new young people . |
| 25 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 26 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 27 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 28 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 29 | Even now there is no obligation in our traditional curriculum to know anything about China because the Greeks and the Romans knew nothing or almost nothing about it . |
| 30 | DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania . |