Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It places me alongside such distinguished past captains like Sir Monty Finniston , Sir Campbell Adamson and Sir Matthew Goodwin' , she said . |
| 3 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 4 | Many people believe that the E111 form you can get from the Post Office covers you against any medical treatment you may need abroad , but this is not so . |
| 5 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 6 | But , as a risk to safety taken recklessly , the offence deserves a penalty which places it above many intentional offences against property . |
| 7 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 8 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 9 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 11 | The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’ |
| 12 | I loved the bit where Kevin leads them into all those traps . |
| 13 | If broadcast worship links us into that universal cycle of prayer and that reality , then it brings us closer to the presence of God . |
| 14 | But this leads us to another possible answer to the question . |
| 15 | ‘ Which , ’ Benjamin continued , ‘ leads us to this sudden change in the Queen 's mood . |
| 16 | Apart from anything else , it leads us into several fascinating areas , such as etymology , linguistic fashion , verbal humour , and the expression of gender — the last two being particularly difficult roads to travel along , and where the bones of many an unwary linguist can be found along the way . |
| 17 | This takes me into another key word and it is education . |
| 18 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 19 | The scenic journey to Karolinka takes you through some beautiful mountainous countryside . |
| 20 | Today 's drive takes you through some wonderful scenery as you follow the Black Canyon Highway as it climbs to Montezuma 's Castle , one of the most perfectly preserved of the ancient Indian cliff dwellings . |
| 21 | A trip on the Settle to Carlisle Railway takes you through some stunning countryside . |
| 22 | Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’ |
| 23 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 24 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 25 | And erm I think it 's a little bit of creative accountancy on their part in saying that and in fact putting that five hundred thousand elsewhere , and also they have erm done a further piece of creative accountancy in that the provision for pay and price increases they have reduced by one point five million , and the combined budget reduces it by half that figure . |
| 26 | Taking Jane Rowe 's Children Who Wait study ( 1973 ) he then compares it with another American study ( Goldstein et al . , |
| 27 | This memory draws them across several hundred miles of ocean , brings them to a particular bay and , as the scent gets stronger and stronger , up one special river and into one particular stream . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 29 | Also described as traditional ( or incremental ) budgeting , the pragmatic approach starts with the previous year 's allocation of resources and updates them for any anticipated changes in , for example , planned activities , prices , or the total money available . |
| 30 | The difference is that the insects live that way because they are following their only instinct in that sphere and this excludes them from all other forms of living . |