Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 2 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 3 | It 's paragraph seventeen , eighteen and the additional item added by Miss about a report to the April meeting on what action can be taken to implement the District Auditor 's recommendations , and from what we 've heard I think that report will also contain reference to today 's , the correct response to today 's Government four papers erm , on the policy with regard to the Rio summit . |
| 4 | No future governments of whatever political persuasion , erm er I I fear have let me begin that point again . |
| 5 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 6 | When they understood what was expected we had few communication problems . |
| 7 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 9 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 10 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 12 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 13 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 14 | Yes , we members have to abide by the current by-laws , but these have made me lose much confidence in the Society . |
| 15 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 16 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 17 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 18 | Robert said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you change any plans you had for today . ’ |
| 19 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 20 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 21 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 22 | He had made her laugh several times , had laughed once at something she 'd said , she recalled , and the entire evening had gone by on winged feet . |
| 23 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 24 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 25 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 26 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 27 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 28 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 29 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 30 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |