Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 2 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 3 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 4 | Set up , or let us both set up , a credit for me . ’ |
| 5 | Do do these criteria operate independently or do they all have to be met to be acceptable ? |
| 6 | Not every older person wants to be in the company of peers , or find it difficult to include younger people among their circle of friends . |
| 7 | Dorothy Sayers ' Harriet Vane was 31 at her Gaudy , yet her nostalgia and sense of life-lived-since put her nearer our mid-forties ; paradoxically I think we 're much closer to our former selves — or do they all say that ? |
| 8 | But was I still wearing some of my clothes or carrying them all bundled in my arms ? |
| 9 | Or had they all planned it beforehand , for a joke — but it was silly to think that . |
| 10 | and everyone jumped on the bandwagon , or have they all made up their own ? |
| 11 | Or have they all died out ? |
| 12 | Or have they all left but the soldiers ? ’ |
| 13 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 14 | Nor do they all function in the same way . |
| 15 | We do not all live the same lives nor do we all need the same things . |
| 16 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 17 | If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read . |
| 18 | The 90/110 type plugs which are parallel wired will not fit your head , but I believe there is a type , new on the market , which will replace the old type and make them quicker to heat up and are parallel wired , so if one burns out the rest will start the engine . |
| 19 | His owner must not shampoo him while he 's knotty as it will tighten the knots and make them harder to remove . |
| 20 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 21 | Is that fine food and wine going to affect your judgement and make you easier to persuade ? |
| 22 | Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford . |
| 23 | It may still be necessary to avoid certain food items or undergo other forms of treatment , but it should speed the body 's recovery , and make it possible to return to a more normal diet sooner . |
| 24 | In this document the case for the nationalisation of key industries was argued on practical grounds in each instance : thus ‘ public ownership of the fuel and power industries ’ would ‘ bring great economies in operation and make it possible to modernise production methods and to raise safety standards ’ ; ‘ public ownership of inland transport ’ would mean ‘ co-ordination of transport services by rail , road and canal ’ ; and the iron and steel industry would become efficient ‘ only if public ownership replaces private monopoly ’ . |
| 25 | Others , including Edwin Kerr and the Reverend Dr George Tolley , Principal of Sheffield City Polytechnic and Chairman of the new Committee , believed that the split would enable greater attention to be given to business and management courses , and make it possible to involve the business and management community more in the work of the Committee . |
| 26 | This is compounded , second , by cross-cutting political objectives that conflict with the achievement of clear financial targets and make it difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 27 | There is also a danger that the reforms will enshrine the division between primary , secondary , and tertiary care and make it difficult to coordinate their activities and to move funds from one sector to another . |
| 28 | This will cause emotional disharmony and make it difficult to act effectively in any way at all . |
| 29 | Who needs wheel spats that collect debris and make it difficult to maintain the brakes , particularly when the engine is only 160hp in an airframe capable of taking 250 ? |
| 30 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |