Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we need to develop groups for ‘ failures ’ , for children born with or who develop conditions which make them unable to fit labels of normality . |
| 2 | We want them all to take place without conflicting |
| 3 | If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony , sooner or later we will be ; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish , let them first read Derek Humphry 's moving account in his book Jean 's Way of how , when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer , he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which , with her full approval , he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion , and how she died peacefully in his arms . |
| 4 | Let me first explain Charles Howard . |
| 5 | ‘ . When a man says he will follow him ‘ but let me first say farewell to those at my home ’ , Jesus reprimands him , and when a woman cries out ‘ Blessed is the womb that bore you , and the breasts that you sucked ’ , he replies ‘ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God ’ . |
| 6 | Whether you go away or not , I hope you all find time for a little rest and recuperation . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean you both had affairs ? ’ |
| 8 | they they make you sick do people . |
| 9 | look you three got honours . |
| 10 | Doctors and other health experts consider it wise to safeguard infants by giving supplementary vitamins . |
| 11 | Right so we could think of erm , cars for example erm , you know we both export cars and import cars . |
| 12 | And we 've got to do something about it , we were promised these savings , there are n't any , it does n't look as if anybody 's working awfully hard to get them , and I 'd like to know why not , and what 's going on , and I 'm quite happy to support what Mr proposes , that we refer it all to budget review . |
| 13 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 14 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 15 | Japanese collectors find it easy to appreciate prints , because works on paper are very much part of their own cultural heritage . |
| 16 | Find it easy to put pressure on others . |
| 17 | Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs . |
| 18 | If you find it confusing to work cables from a written description , try following our step-by-step photographs above |
| 19 | When he lifted his hand she shrank back , terrified that he would touch her again , but all he did was push the heavy dark hair back from his forehead , his voice coolly impersonal when he answered , ‘ I always find it useful to make plans . ’ |
| 20 | A number of feminists — Mary Daly is a good example — find it useful to subject words to a kind of archaeological excavation , turning to the etymological dictionaries to find out where a particular word came from , what it meant and how it has changed . |
| 21 | Thus in Greater London and the South East , where unemployment is relatively low , it is lower ( and , indeed , to man-up for some events several organisations find it necessary to bus people in from other parts of the country ) , whilst in certain northern conurbations , where unemployment is high , it rises correspondingly . |
| 22 | Some groups in the Church can not even live peacefully alongside each other or listen to each other , but find it necessary to throw insults — or even bombs — at their sisters and brothers in Christ . |
| 23 | The growth of slimming clubs is a reminder that many people find it helpful to lose weight if they 're part of a group where they can swap stories and share experiences — but slimming clubs do n't necessarily work for everyone . |
| 24 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 25 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 26 | For different purposes we find it convenient to use words in different senses . |
| 27 | Their coordination is less well-developed , too : they find it harder to turn somersaults or hold a pencil properly for long . |
| 28 | I wo n't deny I find it harder to keep pace , what with collecting the rents , keeping the books ready for the accountant , and overseeing the more recent purchases , like the six acres of land in Accrington which we 're negotiating to sell on . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , most people still find it harder to get compensation from drug firms for errant products than from almost any other type of manufacturer . |
| 30 | In practice , management development proposals find it hard to claim managers ' interest in the face of demand for improved patient care , professional training , etc . |