Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she makes me laugh , she stands there talking and she 's saying , one minute she 's saying oh Steven really loves school , he really enjoys it , he 's really calmed down since he 's gone to school Steven stop running down that corridor . |
| 2 | As authorities in Spain and Kuwait try to unravel how billions of dollars slipped through the fingers of the Kuwait Investment Office ( KIO ) , the foreign-investment arm of the Kuwaiti government , they claim to have exposed dealings as murky and complex as anything now pinned on 1991 's most notorious crooks . |
| 3 | The Chelsea Groupies have become so well-known in the King 's Road area that a new scheme , Shopwatch , has been introduced to combat them . |
| 4 | Olga and David have planted over two hundred trees which supplement those existing before the house . |
| 5 | Many provincial towns in the United States have lost almost all their shops to suburban shopping malls and have become very dead places as a result . |
| 6 | Despite Graham 's protestations , Arsenal have picked up 23 bookings already this season and a growing injury list has further blighted the Gunners ' bid for a third championship triumph in five seasons . |
| 7 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 8 | Only Fulham and West Brom have won more away matches in the Third Division . |
| 9 | The reason could be , of course , as you say , that , that people like Darwin and Freud have made really important discoveries and that 's why nobody can leave them alone . |
| 10 | actually Galatasaray and other turkish teams seem to do well in the european cups from time to time … i do not have the stat 's right here ( or anywhere else ; - ) ) — but i 'm quite sure if you check it out you will see that G. have knocked out some other ‘ great teams ’ before Scum . |
| 11 | and then I 'll go down to Devon Travel to pick up that er |
| 12 | Only in the twentieth century did skilled workers in Colombo begin to organize along working-class lines . |
| 13 | In her view , techniques developed in Northern Ireland have become more apparent on the British mainland . |
| 14 | CANADIAN World Cup stars Glenn Ennis and Norm Hadley have turned down lucrative offers from several French clubs to join Japanese club Toshiba instead . |
| 15 | SRI LANKA : Tamil separatists in the North have ripped apart this once popular tourist island . |
| 16 | In the past few years major corporations such as BP , BT , the Post Office and IBM have cut out huge swathes of middle management to produce leaner , more competitive organisations . |
| 17 | Unveiling a commemorative plaque at the opening , John Rimmington , director general of the Health and Safety Executive , said , ‘ Utilising your resources effectively is the key to success and AEA have done just that with this building . |
| 18 | Taylor , concerned that England have hit just six goals in the last eight games , has demanded his players shoot on sight and overwhelm the Turks . |
| 19 | No , I mean , England have bowled much better at him and Tufnell 's for example is , is very difficult to get away because it is spinning a little bit and I 'm sure that they , the England bowlers must have said to themselves , we 're not going to bowl a lot of short balls at , at we must keep it full length , erm , and so part of this slow score is due to better England bowling . |
| 20 | In the last 26 years England have staged only two major events — 1966 European Championships at Wembley and the 1977 World Championships in Birmingham . |
| 21 | In 26 matches under Taylor , England have managed just 35 goals , their best return coming in the 4–2 win over Malaysia . |
| 22 | According to Cumont , despite the theological differences between the Vedas and the Avesta , ‘ the Vedic Mitra and the Iranian Mithra have preserved so many traits of resemblance that it is impossible to entertain any doubt concerning their common origin' . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union and South Korea have set up consular offices in each other 's capitals , Seoul 's foreign ministry said yesterday . |
| 24 | Largely because of absentee owners , the gardens at Shotover have changed remarkably little ; Sir John Miller has n't changed much either , though he has made his own — living — additions to the grounds . |
| 25 | Blackburn have won only one of their last 10 games and Dalglish says all that is missing is the bounce of the ball . |
| 26 | Scotland have taken only two points from their first three games in their qualifying group and trail Switzerland , Italy and Portugal . |
| 27 | So far , Scotland have taken only two points from the first three games in Group I. |
| 28 | The Mancs do get ludicrously self-righteous about it , like they chant only Mary-Whitehouse-approved stuff . |
| 29 | President Izetbegovic , a Muslim who represents the largest ethnic group , has appealed for UN help to stave off civil war . |
| 30 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |