Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] signs [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when , on their leader 's orders , they went to search the huts and hovels and woods beside and ahead of them to find signs of retreat or of ambush that the news they brought back seemed to unsettle their leader and the noblemen from Northumbria and from Fife whom he conferred with . |
| 2 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 3 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 4 | Then muscular stiffness suddenly develops , the patient is in agonising pain — just like cramp in the leg — and she shows signs of insecurity when walking . |
| 5 | The officer gave her the kiss of life for five minutes before she showed signs of life . |
| 6 | A psychologist will keep tabs on teams of youngsters and will stop the operation if they show signs of stress . |
| 7 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 8 | Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself . |
| 9 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 10 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 11 | But he shows signs of unease by touching his cuff-links with his thumb and finger , one of his nervous habits . |
| 12 | Twenty four hours later he showed signs of brain stem compression , having fixed dilated pupils , no spontaneous respiratory effort , and hypertension . |
| 13 | The dun at Trudernish is exceptional in that it shows signs of vitrification . |
| 14 | The dun at Trudernish is exceptional in that it shows signs of vitrification . |
| 15 | The world and everything in it shows signs of order and pattern , but such signs are inexplicable without the mind of a Planner . |
| 16 | It shows signs of spreading , which made me think it must be lead and , therefore , a .22 . |