Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't feel that music is the most appropriate forum for social change because frankly I do n't think my opinions are valid for everyone , so I would n't want my opinions echoed by hundreds of thousands of people buying T-shirts with my name on them . |
| 2 | I do n't want my kids going through that . ’ |
| 3 | I want my officers made of sterner stuff . ’ |
| 4 | I want my pupils to participate in mathematical thinking , and to take the initiative . |
| 5 | The artist alienates her objets trouvés through clever arrangements and marriages of incompatible elements — as in the Lautreamontesque encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table . |
| 6 | He invented the radiometer , a perplexing scientific toy in which a small propeller contained in an evacuated bulb has its vanes blackened on one side ; when light falls on it , the propeller turns . |
| 7 | This probably has its roots established over many years and very often built on myth . |
| 8 | In the music room , which has its walls lined with framed gold records and death threats from fundamentalist religious groups , Ice-T tells me about his future plans . |
| 9 | He has their virtues translated into masculine form . |
| 10 | Kylie however has her sights set on another star , and another decade , the 1940s . |
| 11 | SunSoft , which foresees new multiple binaries in Unix 's future , is anxious to stress all the current and mostly anticipated differences in its system that independent software vendors have to take account of , claiming developers want their programs running at maximum performance rather than in some watered down but politically correct fashion . |
| 12 | Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age . |
| 13 | The Funny Farm team say their facilities compare with any recording studio in London . |
| 14 | And recently a store in Germany found its shelves stocked with fake Nivea . |
| 15 | To put on a play in a town which had let its Mysteries lapse for five years — it was a serious temptation . |
| 16 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 17 | For a few seconds she found her eyes trapped in that unnervingly steady gaze . |
| 18 | I heard of one 35-year-old secretary who bought a special offer at a solarium , soaked up 50 half-hour sessions of artificial sun in ten weeks , and found her shins covered with large , dark , irregular freckles that remained and spread . |
| 19 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 20 | Carl Llewellyn , again riding Party Politics , has his sights set on Red Rum 's record of three Grand National victories . |
| 21 | He has lifted his profits forecast for this year slightly to £950 million and expects a 15 per cent rise in the dividend . |
| 22 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 23 | Going to his cabin one night the guilty engineer found his bulkheads papered with blue toilet paper and Bluecol stickers everywhere . |
| 24 | I shall consider his attempts to deal with these in turn . |
| 25 | Everybody from the politburo downwards should know what slogans to repeat in any given situation . |
| 26 | In relation to my experience in the so called western feminist movement , I really feel that race and class is a major impediment to the unity of even us women operating in this country . |
| 27 | So we 're keeping our fingers crossed on that idea . |
| 28 | Since I saw you last , has your has your girls gone to secondary school ? |
| 29 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 30 | Those who argued its virtues saw in this new kind of school an opportunity to blend the best in primary and secondary habits and , in particular , to extend for two extra years some of the freedom associated with good primary-school practice . |