Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 2 | ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible . |
| 3 | It is likely that the Romans followed Alexandrian fashion in this respect , but surviving portraits of later date suggest that they retained their own conventions of representing character in facial features . |
| 4 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |
| 5 | If you are completely beaten by this painstaking stage of pressed flower work , then I suggest that you consult your local framer , who should be very helpful and be able to quickly produce the professional finish that you want . |
| 6 | Friends of Eliot suggest that he confronted his old friend with the news a day or two before the marriage . |
| 7 | She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal . |
| 8 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 9 | I do n't know that I like it all that much . |
| 10 | Are you willing to take responsibility for your life , to accept that we create our own reality ? |
| 11 | When Gilgamesh later dreamt that Enlil , the father of the gods , had decreed his destiny , it was Enkidu who interpreted for him , explaining that it indicated his certain mortality as well as the gifts of unexampled supremacy over the people and victory in battle . |
| 12 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 13 | I think I speak for everybody and say that we wish you well in this project . |
| 14 | Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced . |
| 15 | ‘ He was at her , trying to make her say that she loved him better than she did me . |
| 16 | Newcomers to CAD say that it has its own jargon . |
| 17 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 18 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 19 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
| 20 | When Hellen was transferred to Toronto to continue her documentary film-making career , I found that I missed her cheery presence more than I had expected , despite many activities . |
| 21 | As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody . |
| 22 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 23 | The committee is very pleased with attendances ‘ this term ’ , which seems to indicate that we got it right … at least some of the time . |
| 24 | Worked out less than , I do n't know and they give us all the posters and everything , so weekend I 'm gon na send away for another seventy |
| 25 | ‘ Miguel , I apologise if I said anything unflattering about you . |
| 26 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 27 | And let me know if she needs anything stronger . ’ |
| 28 | His eyebrows rose and he met her steady gaze with a hint of amusement in his own . |
| 29 | will be pleased to know if you tell him that |
| 30 | Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end . |