Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you knew about my plans to start my own business … ? |
| 2 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 3 | It 's Maui Waui , I got my surfer-ex to send me some . |
| 4 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 5 | The commercial software available for my computer was very limited and my attempts to design my own even more so ! |
| 6 | There was still no sign of a life-raft and I advised Warton of my intention to drop our own dinghy . |
| 7 | ‘ My art is based upon my desire to create my own realism , my wold as I see it . |
| 8 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |
| 9 | But it 's still my right to choose my own form of sexual self-determination . |
| 10 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm keeping my wages to buy them some myself . ’ |
| 12 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 13 | Large practices are more and more expecting their solicitors to do their own advocacy , and not instruct counsel . |
| 14 | In many battles they proved their willingness to spill their own blood in defence of the human lands and Teclis and Finreir both took many wounds . |
| 15 | She could cancel the bank loan and salt away her redundancy money and pick up her plans to start her own business as soon as the eighteen months were up . |
| 16 | Furthermore , because of their freedom to set their own terms of service , trusts are able to offer contracts that are potentially exploitative , requiring hours of work beyond those considered acceptable for doctors in the training grades . |
| 17 | And one of the banks even employed them to borrow , you know , to get a copy of their programme to check their own system . |
| 18 | It would be unkind to attribute this decision to her intention to publish her own diaries . ) |
| 19 | Opposition Members are cutting off their noses to spite their own faces by encouraging Mr. Millan to withhold our money . |
| 20 | But where he spells out ( sometimes in capitals or in italics ) the implications of his observation , she leaves her readers to make their own deductions . |
| 21 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 22 | But it was n't until 1975 , when the German authorities announced their intention to build their own nuclear plant on the opposite side of the river Rhine , near the town of Wyhl , that people from both sides of the border came together to protest . |
| 23 | He came , amiable , assured , and planted himself in her doorway to enquire what all the fuss was about . |
| 24 | The whole industry is determined to make these changes , and the recent announced by the Milk Marketing Board of its determination to change its own structure is yet another example of an entirely new and welcome move in the industry . |
| 25 | truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha ha ha . |
| 26 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha . |
| 27 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha ha . |
| 28 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work . |
| 29 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work . |
| 30 | There were even suggestions , in published letters , that senior officials had used their influence to prevent their own sons being sent to the front line . |