Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your food stamps will be stopped March 1992 because we received notice that you had passed away . |
| 2 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 3 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 4 | And probably the most useful key of all when you 're doing global formatting , is shift F ten and you select the whole document . |
| 5 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 6 | If you can clearly state what your objective is what you 're trying to persuade the audience to then everything you say supports that and you stand a better chance of being persuasive . |
| 7 | Put it this way if I 'm only baby , how come people younger than me have already got a family ? |
| 8 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 9 | Bowe , who challenges undisputed champion Evander Holyfield 's here tonight , is ready to renege on an agreement to meet Lewis next if he wins the world crown . |
| 10 | The cooperation of the Rotel has bee such that I have often gone into the ‘ play it again ’ mode on my regular machine because credibility was being strained . |
| 11 | We found Royston much as we had left it . |
| 12 | The marquis 's strength made Topaz light-headed as they clung together , his desire a worthy match for hers . |
| 13 | But , when you consider that seeds of F1 geraniums cost 20-30p each and they need to be sown in a heated greenhouse in January or early February , plants are a better buy . |
| 14 | Gosse was a Plymouth Brother , and a marine biologist who had made aquaria popular and who ran seaside field-trip/holidays for those interested in natural history . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , we 'll do Maureen first as she has to rush off . |
| 16 | clearly written leaflets available before you go into hospital that describe what will happen to you in hospital , what you need to bring with you and so on ; |
| 17 | Drink had made George sentimental and he turned his mouth down lugubriously as he remembered his steady and the down payment on the furniture . |
| 18 | Iro , the only Kiwi of undoubted international calibre , made scoring look easy when he received his chance , but in a splendid move between the forwards , Castleford carved the tourists open again before half-time , 19-year-old Paul Crabtree taking a Beardmore pass to give the home side a 20-8 interval lead . |
| 19 | Our relationship does seem to be improving but obviously I 'm worried that we now seem to be paying 50% more than we expected . |
| 20 | So we 've got column one and we have the picture of the cock in the background crowing . |
| 21 | Iorwerth shook Owen awake and they stood to their arms rapidly and in silence , but silence and darkness did not cover them . |
| 22 | at the moment we 've got effort and behaviour acceptable , we 've got numeracy acceptable and we 've got literacy acceptable with reservations but , tough cookie ! |
| 23 | Dorothy One had died for something she believed in ( though Margaret was not quite sure what it was ) , but she 'd have helped keep Dorothy Two if she 'd lived . |
| 24 | However , President Gorbachev had requested $10,200 million when he met the EC Commissioner for Economic Affairs , Henning Christophersen , on Oct. 1 . |
| 25 | All the shelling has probably got Jerry worried and he anticipates an attack . ’ |
| 26 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 27 | Those eyes looked so blue when he was angry like this , and in a way , after last night , it made things easier that he had come now , when there was Faye 's latest problem to think of . |
| 28 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 29 | Make things easier when we go to work on him . ’ |
| 30 | The beer made Noah talkative and he began to boast . |