Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Supposed to have let me know last night again . |
| 3 | No future governments of whatever political persuasion , erm er I I fear have let me begin that point again . |
| 4 | Listen to what they say — maybe some place coming free soon , maybe some place they could have let you have three months back but it went to someone else . |
| 5 | As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 8 | Yes , we members have to abide by the current by-laws , but these have made me lose much confidence in the Society . |
| 9 | With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest . |
| 10 | ‘ I seen you dance one time . |
| 11 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 12 | Robert said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you change any plans you had for today . ’ |
| 13 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 14 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 15 | " 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 . |
| 16 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 19 | I catch a piercing look I 've seen him give other guys ; Gregory , when he would n't jump a six-foot gap on the fourteenth storey ; Nick , when we learned about his drinking . |
| 20 | Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances . |
| 21 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 22 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 23 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 24 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 25 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 27 | Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before . |
| 28 | As Kingfisher chairman Geoff Mulcahy puts it : ‘ Opportunity 2000 in Kingfisher has helped us unlock rich reserves of talent among our employees , giving women opportunities and allowing us to make better economic use of our total workforce . ’ |
| 29 | It is such a group of specialists that has helped us write technical briefs on the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations , microwave ovens , BS 5750 , accessible accommodation for the disabled and cook-chill catering . |
| 30 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |