Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 2 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 3 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 4 | Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out . |
| 5 | I 've spoken to right er and owes me a few favours and I 've said er would you consider her completing her training until the end of May middle of May which she does at the and then if she 's any good , take her on , providing she gets a driving licence . |
| 6 | Most fax software lets you define a group of names in the fax phone book , and send them the same fax at the click of a button . |
| 7 | Use cotton dust-covers — white — and wash them every few months . |
| 8 | It gusted through the council estate they were now in , picking up sweet papers and whisking them a few yards down the street . |
| 9 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 10 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 11 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 12 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 13 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
| 14 | That would take the smile off their faces all right and give them a few seconds relief . |
| 15 | Well it 's history that Langer and Graham never made it , although Langer nearly chipped in at the end to force that playoff and give us a few tremble s . |
| 16 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 17 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 18 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 19 | For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party . |
| 20 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 21 | it is generally best to quote the nearest authority first and to allot it the most space , the other cases can be brought more casually into the discussion , as you have time . |
| 22 | Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ? |
| 23 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 24 | Have n't these candidates got the guts to face up to the voters who elect them to Parliament and spare us a few minutes of their time . |
| 25 | It is neither possible nor desirable to fix any language at one point in time and keep it the same ever afterwards . |
| 26 | " Not yet ; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions . |
| 27 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 28 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 29 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 30 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |