Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students for whom French is the minor component in their degree spend two months in France during summer vacations , and some financial help is available from the University to enable them to do this . |
| 2 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 3 | Some have the full range of infrastructural provision enabling them to accommodate all but the heaviest industries , while others are capable of occupation only by light industry or warehouses . |
| 4 | According to its prospectus , it intended to apply for an Act of Parliament empowering it to acquire all the land south of Downing Street , as far as Parliament Square , between St James 's Park and the river . |
| 5 | Yes , the top tipster of the month will be sent a brand-spanking-new cartridge enabling you to enter all those Reset and Action Replay POKES you regularly moan about . |
| 6 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 7 | He suggested that the club expected him to score more points . |
| 8 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 9 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 10 | What happened next , was done by a child ‘ who had suffered years of subtle torture at the hands of a madman whose twisted mind helped him justify all his crimes ’ . |
| 11 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 12 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 13 | This year , our first year at Grosvenor House , the theme of American patronage allows us to exhibit several important pieces of Americana . |
| 14 | If a BFS is non-degenerate , it corresponds to only one tableau and the fundamental theorem allows us to deduce that , if the BFS is efficient , then ( 9.8 ) is satisfied . |
| 15 | Golf course get the thumbs down — the study says they have little to do with farm tourism — and further farm museums , rare breed centres and farm attractions which need a large number of visitors to service a high capital investment should not be encouraged . |
| 16 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 17 | But their definition of the female subject as a biological or cultural essence leads them to pursue this ambiguity much less than egalitarian feminists . |
| 18 | Magazine articles , in an attempt to help us improve that image , advise us to stand sideways on , without our clothes , before a long mirror , and check up honestly on our general shape . |
| 19 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 20 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 21 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 22 | When his horse staled he kept some of the urine . |
| 23 | Your religion allow you to take another wife without repudiating Empress Farah Diba . " |
| 24 | The historical background provided in this chapter helps us understand some of these diagnoses as well as some of the prescriptions . |
| 25 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 26 | But the realization that his own civilization is extinguishing cultures of ‘ savages ’ possessed of coherent ways of living prompts him to demand that civilization be considered in no narrow perspective . |
| 27 | Neither today nor in the future do we make any claims whatsoever on territory in Poland or in any other neighbouring country . " |
| 28 | Once only in the rest of the New Testament do we meet this title , in 1 John 2:1 . |
| 29 | What sort of boat do you think this is ? ’ |
| 30 | Took them out to make the tea did you get any biscuits ? |