Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 2 | The third is a less tangible but no less striking phenomenon , the general feeling for freedom that has come over us all , an understanding heightened by the recent escape of millions of people by 1990 from the miseries of authoritarian rule and command economies . |
| 3 | The time has come for us all to speak out , to make it clear that we are behind her in feeling that we need someone new at the helm . ’ |
| 4 | But today he has looked at me two or three times in a certain way . " |
| 5 | Rosemary Hawthorne has looked into them all . |
| 6 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 7 | Now I think what erm and my feelings on this er are very much er similar to Mr Donson 's and I 'm grateful for the calculation he has done for us all . |
| 8 | when all it has done for us this last year |
| 9 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 10 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 11 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 12 | However , there are more than 50 million people in this country , and HMG has to look after them all . |
| 13 | ‘ What on earth has got into you this morning ? ’ she said wonderingly . |
| 14 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 15 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 16 | The index at the back of Roget 's lists over 1000 words , each of which has indented underneath it another list of words . |
| 17 | Lone inventors are by no means all nutters , but we can sympathise with anyone who has to deal with them all the time . |
| 18 | She wants to run through them all and then you 've got to fill in a piece of paper on which three pieces you 'd like to do , and al you know , she wants the cheque and full details of what name to go on the certificate and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | He has brought with him some psychedelic mushrooms to grow at work . |
| 20 | If it is like hell , it is sometimes a cosy sort of hell , snug with the smell of clay , but the work is treacherous , and the machinery has brought with it some new risks . |
| 21 | A secretary or executive has to plough through them all to fulfil every media request . |
| 22 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 23 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 24 | has happened to us several times . |
| 25 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ Tell me what has happened to you that is so peculiar . ’ |
| 27 | What has happened to you all ? ’ |
| 28 | Scrum-half Steve Bates is playing the best rugby of his life and wants to add to his one cap . |
| 29 | has associated with it one or more DCs which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 30 | But , away from their partners , more than one has admitted to me that , left to his own devices , he would n't have opted for ‘ daddy ’ status , enjoyable though it may be . |