Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ True , but we need a second Geiger counter and there is n't time to wait for them to send us another one . ’ |
| 2 | The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids . |
| 3 | I 've arranged for you to meet him first . ’ |
| 4 | If Disneyland , which is only 150 acres in size , can attract 10 million visitors a year , the opportunity must exist for us to attract our own type of tourist . |
| 5 | How can we think about something colouring our that does n't have anything to do with our bodies , nothing to do with our history , nothing to do with a particular that we 've gone through , nothing to do with our soul faculties . |
| 6 | What do you think about me wearing my red jacket on Saturday ? |
| 7 | Erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because you 're fumbling about what makes me more nervous you 're fumbling about with something trying to do something that you do n't really need to do . |
| 8 | Doreen took a deep breath as she said in an urgent tone , ‘ I ca n't wait for you to make it official . |
| 9 | " You want for me to lift your little boat out on to our deck until your boys are finished searching . |
| 10 | Starting one supposes with who does what best , to get away from the sense of the government imposing a ratchet , on expenditure . |
| 11 | I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get . |
| 12 | His talents may not have been great but his importance lies in his using them all to express in painting his romantic vision . |
| 13 | Both poverty and unemployment traps may provide a disincentive to work as those caught within them find it difficult , or even impossible , to improve their position through their own efforts . |
| 14 | I would like to write to you to say what excellent service we are receiving with our sanitary unit collection . |
| 15 | I just want to you to get yourselves comfortable during this time . |
| 16 | Longing to scream at him to set her free , she reminded herself of her drama-school training , and instead forced herself to look as if she had no more feeling than a block of wood . |
| 17 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 18 | They hoisted him into his saddle and bound him there , lying forward upon the beast 's neck with his arms lashed about it to hold him secure , and a folded cloak under his breast and cheek . |
| 19 | Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later . |
| 20 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |
| 21 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 22 | Looking after the needs of customers means that performance plastics sold by ICI have to have special properties built into them to make them competitive and effective . |
| 23 | She was drowning in sensory pleasure as his mouth moved from hers to place its erotic touch on her eyelids , her temples , followed the high line of her sculptured cheekbone , every movement speaking of his possessive need , his mounting passion , his overriding desire to invade and conquer her . |
| 24 | Again , failure to do so could result in you losing your Legal Aid and having to pay your own legal costs . |
| 25 | Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin . |
| 26 | Buckingham Palace , 12th December 1987 My dear Miss Jones , We are writing to you to express our sincere gratitude for the way in which you recently risked your life by diving in front of the runaway horse of one of our Lifeguards to save one of our Royal corgis . |
| 27 | I shall give the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) time to read the newspaper cutting that he was trying to wave at us to make his great point . |
| 28 | That is an analysis by the officers of what additional funds they felt was needed for them to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 29 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
| 30 | Two of them look at their leader , waiting for it to say something suitable for this historic occasion . |